A traumatic experience - Intern Morningstar Employee Review

1.0
Dec 16, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The office location is nice (downtown Chicago). The CEO is great, as expected for a mid-sized company.

Cons

Low pay, micro-managing people, overtime with no pay. Hopeless intern project, no feedback even when asked for repeatedly. To be fair, the project and micro-managing could be team-dependent, but the HR attitude is something to look out for. They don't care about their people unlike what they claim their values to be. Some of the senior leadership is just straight up incapable. A lot of corporate politics. Take this only if this is your last option, and by no means should you get excited on joining Morningstar.

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Morningstar Response
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Your feedback is very disconcerting. I%E2%80%99m so sorry to hear your experience at Morningstar missed the mark. Providing our interns with an enriching experience is at the core of our Internship Program and it sounds like your experience didn%E2%80%99t measure up to that. Your comments about your team being micro-managed is not characteristic of the experience we aim to foster at Morningstar. %E2%80%9CEntrepreneurial Spirit%E2%80%9D is one of our values and something we encourage company wide. It sounds like this wasn%E2%80%99t reflected on your team and that%E2%80%99s disappointing. One of the great things about our internship program is the opportunity for college students and recent graduates to gain real experience on a variety of projects that will be applicable in their first professional role. Many of our interns decide to apply for the Morningstar Development Program and join Morningstar full-time after graduation. Thank you for taking the time to share this review. Though disappointing, we hope you will reach out to us at AskHR@Morningstar.com to share more about your experience so we can better understand what went wrong and improve where needed.

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