Moody's Reviews

Pros

Work and life balance..friendly colleagues

Cons

salary, incompetent managers, low professional development

Pros

relax, casual working environment. good benefit.

Cons

pays are in the medium in bay area comparing to other IT companies. It's a finance company, don't expect too much about cutting edge technologys. Too much restrictions in using the internet.

Advice to Senior Management

no comments

Pros

good quality of training;
good work-life balance: 9-6 are the usual hours;
nice colleagues: a multicultural environment with smart people around.

Cons

can become boring due to the repetitive nature of the job
limited client contact
low pay in comparison to pay in other financial institutions

Advice to Senior Management

management should be more transparent

Pros

Moody's fosters a very collegial environment

Cons

Credit crisis aftermath continues to challenge

Advice to Senior Management

Keep restoring the confidence in the firm

Pros

Training in credit is top notch in the industry.

Cons

Management is non transparent, irrational, and inconsistent.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to communicate and promote from within!

Pros

Very intelligent peers with a somewhat academic environment in which to debate credit issues. Highly conducive to producing high quality credit opinions when we have the right calibre people.

Cons

Garbage-can management style where everything from the most important to the most mundane decisions are done on a consensus basis. As a result, nothing is ever decided or concluded. Managers don't take action or responsibility when they ought to do so.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow attrition at more senior levels so as to allow new blood to improve management quality at the top. Also this is one of the few companies in the financial services industry where there is no explicit review of the managers by junior members of the company. There is little accountability and transparency. Senior management is very short-sighted. Also, limit the use of consensus-based approach when taking strategic decisions - managers MUST decide, not leave it for everyone to have a say and not reach any conclusion.

Pros

Great place to learn and grow

Cons

Pay is not as competitive as other financial companies.

Pros

Work life Balance is very nice

Cons

Compensation has to increase to retain employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue doing the greate work

Pros

-great hours-- typically you can get away with 9-5
-decent pay for hours
-clear career path

Cons

-get boring--you do the same thing every day, even if you try to work on other projects or with other teams
-there is no incentive to work really hard-- everybody moves at the same pace. Great workers promoted six months before incompetent workers.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more so your employees will be better respected on the street.

Pros

Somewhat reputable financial firm; location is great.

Cons

Salary not in par with market, recruiters are clueless about IT positions and market demand and compensations. Badly managed helpdesk operations--simple requests takes months to implement. simple password resets sometime takes days. Development team is H1B sweatshop-- disrespectful attitude is common scene, and management takes a blind eye to bullying.

Advice to Senior Management

Recruitment at Moody's can be run by a 5-line script. Current HR analysts are busy facebooking all day and have little or no experience in hiring talent, and that may explain why IT talent is almost nonexistent at Moody's.