Morgan Stanley reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(19,919 total reviews)
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73% positive business outlook

Morgan Stanley has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 19,919 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Morgan Stanley employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Feb 26, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible environment in terms of work hours Potential to make more money based on your sales efforts Great communication from management Great internal resources, business building ideas and training

Cons

Typical big wirehouse environment Too much overhead leads to lower payout for smaller producers The use of penalties and minimums to force conformation to corporate rules for account sizes/production levels (see con #2)

2.0
Feb 25, 2010

Good work life balance.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A decent work life balance.

Cons

Lack of recognition by management. Very political.

4.0
Feb 24, 2010

Tough but rewarding

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great brand name, cutting edge in some areas, great place to cut your teeth, in addition to being intelligent good networking skills will take you places, a sense of history of working for the Morgan Stanley name

Cons

long hours - it seems like everyone always has work, can be too competitive at times

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