Joe is always one of the greatest personality to work for, even when the company could have lost its way at the time - Anonymous employee Morningstar Employee Review

3.0
Apr 13, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sabbatical and flexible working schedules, if one's manager chains honor it. Payment is not bad at all especially in consideration of local economy, everyone's accomplishment and real "productive" workload. The senior executives and sales, account managers can make a lot even in bad years, easily dwarfing what the others like developers or IT staffs can aspire on the first line. Taking the annual bonus expense from 10-K and divide by these groups one can easily figure out. Bagels Wednesday etc. Lastly and most importantly, Joe is always one of the greatest personality to work for.

Cons

Dysfunctional internal politics at the time I left. Smart people, particularly newly minted senior managers, are not shy about boasting all the benefits and opportunities they enjoy with little real products or productivity to deliver. The morale was rather low so there were an exodus of good people during the period.

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Pros

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Cons

Not very competitive pay and it is easy to hit a ceiling in your career development. New HR policies are kind of strange, will not promote you unless you make enough money to be promoted which they designed the system to make it so you cannot go up. HR has also laid people off because they make too much money without considering the consequences of removing senior employees with unique/not stored intelligence vital to the company. They also hired a bunch of remote employees, then implemented a 4 day required in office rule no matter if you live states away from an office, which pushed hundreds of people to quit, not receive their bonus, and not require M* to pay them severance. It didn't use to be this way but the last year or so has been strange.

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