Morgan Stanley Reviews

Pros

Big firm.
Reasonably developed infrastructure.
People are reasonably nice.

Cons

All the downside of being a big firm.
Nasty fixed income instruments aren't for everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

complex environment help to grow professionally and learn different technologies

Cons

two complex management vertical, lots of unnecessary level and overlaping

Pros

1. Reputable company, great platform
2. Good benefits
3. Smart people

Cons

1. Very serious politicking
2. Lack of incentive on growing talent, which leads to lousy people management
3. Management cannot be trusted for what they had said
4. High turnover
5. Long working hour

Pros

Great benefits - 4 weeks vacation from day 1, unlimited sick leave
Access to senior management
Regular mandatory performance reviews for management and staff
Opportunities to move to different departments
Encouragement for new innovative ideas
Everyone encouraged to think like an owner

Cons

extra long hours
compensation not on par with other FIrms
incosistent criteria for promotion
managment's attitude that you are wasily replaceable
high staff turn over

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to obvious signs of discontent and try to mitigate before hand

Pros

Due diligence, quality of research and seniors, hierarchy boundaries limited

Cons

Work life balance hard sOmetimes with workload, feedback may be hard to obtain and often takes initiative to receive any

Advice to Senior Management

More feedback

Pros

+ Good salary
+ Good live work balance
+ Flexible management
+ Good environment
+ Open office policy
+ Good benefis

Cons

- Realatively long work hours
- Little buerocracy

Advice to Senior Management

I like this company a lot although this is my workplace, the one thing I'm hoping to see is easy relocation to different offices.

Pros

its a globally reputed company. It gives you a good chance of progressing into other careers. It teaches you to prepare for the unseen.

Cons

The timings are horrible at a junior level. The staff is very materialistic and you tend to lose your ethical side at such places.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more people maybe. Its not all about who has a patek philipe or who owns a bentley. Be more human.

Pros

The work environment is great and the people you work with are very talented. The management is very open-minded and there are a lot of potential to grow and be promoted as long as you are doing great.

Cons

Sometimes working hours are pretty long. Also the company is not very supportive in the immigration process for foreign workers.

Advice to Senior Management

The management team could do more to reward the top talents. Also the management team can do more to make the coordination among different department better.

Pros

Great People and a brand name

Cons

New hire from services companies spoiling the culture

Advice to Senior Management

Think Long Term with employees

Pros

Good research, fixed income trading

Cons

retail access to capital markets

Advice to Senior Management

Management is ok, compliance a bit extraneous