Not for the ambitious - Anonymous employee Morningstar Employee Review

2.0
Nov 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits and perks, beautiful office space, flexible time off, sabbatical (in theory - I was never allowed to actually take mine).

Cons

Pay is lousy. You will have to fight tooth and nail for a raise. As a woman in the technology area, my ideas were frequently dismissed by my superiors who would later appropriate some version of my ideas as their own. My ambition was frequently dismissed as aggression. I finally left once I realized that I could either continue working my butt off, or I could mail it in like some of my other colleagues, and the outcome for me would be exactly the same.

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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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