Morningstar reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(4,137 total reviews)
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Kunal Kapoor

83% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Morningstar has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 4,137 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Morningstar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Mar 31, 2015

Used to be a good place to work.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance, sabbatical, office space, party, benefits, casual dress code...actually, lots of this kind of pros. It is highly recommended to a new hand - much less pressure, while still have rooms to learn and grow - if you want.

Cons

Take your time to read the cons from the reviews chain. I was proud of being a member of a great family, but now I am sad to say that it lost. Lower and lower employee morale makes it harder and harder to turn back to be a good company.

3.0
Oct 9, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Laid-back, low pressure atmosphere. Great work/life balance as most people work no more than 45-50 hours per week and casual dress code. Highly intelligent equity and credit analyst peer group. Intellectually stimulating work with significant responsibilities and opportunity to learn. Research business is growing and doing quite well.

Cons

Comp, comp, comp. Did I mention comp? Salaries are okay, but bonuses are a joke... total comp 30%-50% below industry averages for experience level. "One Morningstar" means that our group is not properly rewarded for our superior efforts and higher levels of profitability & growth. Very tight budgets mean limited resources to do job properly (research tools, research data, travel). Pay does not scale very well as one moves up in the department or company. To put it simply, Morningstar is cheap. As a result, employee turnover is relatively high.

1.0
Oct 16, 2025

Think twice before you apply here

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Pros

Benefits and pay are fair, bonus plan was good but it changed.

Cons

Save yourself the headache, seriously. I worked here for 5 years, and what started as a great experience slowly turned into a full-blown circus. As an analyst, I interacted with senior leadership who were either completely unresponsive or blissfully unaware of what was actually happening. The C-suite? A rotating cast of buzzword enthusiasts who loved to “synergize” and “align” without ever saying anything meaningful. Watching executives drop like flies every other month became its own weird spectator sport. Middle management isn’t much better. They love micromanaging everyone else while doing next to nothing themselves. My manager would stroll in whenever he felt like it and leave just as freely meanwhile, the rest of us had to log every minute like inmates in a minimum-security facility. Oh, and the mandatory return-to-office policy is jumping to four days a week in 2026 because clearly, morale wasn’t low enough already. HR? Think ghosted emails, biased decisions, and zero accountability. You either become your own advocate or get steamrolled by people with too much ego and not enough sense. Speaking of egos collaboration with the offshore team in Mumbai was… let’s just say “emotionally high-maintenance.” The European counterparts were more chill, just mostly unresponsive. The freedom and autonomy that once made this place tolerable have completely vanished. The layoffs, the constant changes, the unspoken dread it’s like working in a corporate haunted house. I’ve watched too many talented, hardworking people leave (or be laid off ) to pretend it’s salvageable. Final verdict: skip the stress. There are better jobs out there that won’t drain your soul one micromanaged minute at a time.

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