Company Lost Its Startup Appeal, Most Careers Paths Are Dead End - Anonymous employee Morningstar Employee Review

-low pay, and while a lot of employees are smart, you get what you pay for. People are not motivated to work hard, because there is absolutely no benefit in 80% of the cases. -financial incentives are non-existent, the company is doomed to fall into mediocrity as 20% of the people perform 80% of the work -they began centralizing the corporate structure few years ago, but there are a lot of things that got lost in translation. Many positions have no further levels of advancement, the structure is often flat. This encourages a lot of lateral movements within the company as Morningstar basically created an environment where only such moves can advance your pay - you basically need whole new title change, because most business units don't have analyst, , senior analyst, associate, director structure. -this results in a lot of turnover and low employee morale - and recent employee surveys perfectly reflect that