MFS Reviews

Pros

work/life balance, genuine 'team' culture

Cons

limited opportunities, excessively burdensome red tape to get anything done

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline processes to make employees more productive

Pros

Hours are reasonable and there are great benefits.

Cons

Culture is very stuffy and they don't appreciate innovation, they have a 'their way or the highway' mentality
No career growth opportunities in technology. You are basically pigeonholed into the role you start in.
Promotions, raises and bonuses are few and far between

Advice to Senior Management

Salaries need to go up and promotions and bonuses should come more frequently.

Pros

great location, respectful staff, easy to fit in, clearly defined job obligations and expectations, good reputation, coworkers who desire to work there

Cons

roles distinctly defined, almost too defined at times, male dominated

Advice to Senior Management

don't be overly conservative

Pros

Strong financial backing by parent company
Consistency in messaging, approach, and mission
Focus on employees career advancement

Cons

Salary divergence between high and median earners

Advice to Senior Management

Pay up

Pros

nice people and good management.

Cons

high turn over, need to know the right person to move up.

Pros

Good benefits
Good location
Some pretty smart people
Senior management puts energy into staying engaged with staff

Cons

Lots of internally developed middle managers with little outside experience, leading to a minimally dynamic management team.
Many middle managers seem fearful of those above them and often act to quell any chance of looking "bad" or risk taking in favor of making their superiors look favorably upon them - when a better course of action for the staff and often for the company would have been quite different.
A relatively large disconnect between what senior management perceive of staff satisfaction with MFS and staff actually perceive and feel.

Advice to Senior Management

Many middle managers have been promoted during good times - without theoretical and practical experience to lead and move forward in more challenging times. Find more ways to tap into genuine, unvarnished employee thoughts and opinions - or continue this cycle of poor middle managers driving employees away.

Pros

There is a good work/life balance, good benefits, and steady workflow. Some smart and interesting people.

Cons

Extremely political atmosphere – gets in the way of productivity and delivering good work. Company is very traditional – needs to be more forward thinking.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on teamwork.

Pros

- Benefits are awesome
- Given a lot of autonomy
- Some great people

Cons

- Culture is horrible
- Management is not proactive
- Firm overall hugs the becnhmark

Advice to Senior Management

- Try to improve the culture because its going down hill

Pros

Benefits, defined contribution, vacation, people get along but usually forms cliques, the company is good with keeping employees informed with current events at company

Cons

My department is very busy and personally I feel completely overwhelmed with work and it just doesn't seem that Managers can do anything about it.

Advice to Senior Management

If the workload is not more evenly distributed people will begin to leave which will devastate your remaining employes even more.

Pros

Good focus on work life balance, comp is comparable

Cons

Smallish and cliquish at times

Advice to Senior Management

need to remember to focus on employees