Morgan Stanley reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(19,900 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 19,900 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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4.0
Jun 6, 2010

Good place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Morgan Stanley is very dynamic place to work. In general people have high morale and proud to be part of the firm.

Cons

With recent banking regulation, the bureaucracy has increased. Work is becoming too much procedure oriented.

4.0
May 24, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to use my assets and move forward. I have received a lot of positive feedback and compensation equal to my efforts.

Cons

Because of the companies size, it can be easy to be over looked. You have to work hard and sometimes to hard to be recognized.

4.0
May 18, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Diverse work. If you have the right skills and the right management over you, you can get the space to go out and do some pioneering, to figure out what the firm needs and go deliver it. Great quote from former president Bob Scott: If you can't respect your manager, don't stick it out but find yourself a better place to work. Not everyone is that open and level headed but generally there are quite a few real people in the firm.

Cons

It's less fun if you get stuck with a micro-manager or arrogant know-nothing over you. In TK, work-life balance... with MUFG coming in things are bound to get more stuffy and rigid Japanese style. Bad quote from former president Zoe Cruz: Really, our business model is much better than a decade ago, because we can lay off most of our risk in the market and so increase leverage and profits (...just a couple of years before the global credit crunch almost killed the over-leveraged firm).

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