Morgan Stanley Reviews

Pros

Fast pace, lots to do, great people

Cons

Long hours, aggressive culture, but motivating

Advice to Senior Management

Let/promote people to move around. MS has a culture of trying to keep people where they are until they find something else.

Pros

great people
unique culture
how much is left of it i dont know

Cons

the place is falling apart
dumb fixed income desk
last of the advisory firms left

Pros

Work and life balance
Great opportunity to learn new products
Great management

Cons

Better salary will make it the best work place

Advice to Senior Management

Compensate people that have been working in the firm for a long time.

Pros

Earning potential is what ever you want it to be but is based off what you can produce

Cons

Not so much with the firm rather the nature of the business

Advice to Senior Management

Less red tape to get things done

Pros

Easy job to do, not too stressing

Cons

Repetitive, Boring, Not that much room for career advancement

Pros

Very informative. Real world daily market exposure.

Cons

Very little internal department interaction.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Talent people and good name
Interesting work once a while
The biggest corporate clients floating through the bullpen
Relativly stable

Cons

Strict rules for promotions
Senior people are not very accessible
Sometime you will be working at corp. development capacity
Schedule is rather unpredictable

Advice to Senior Management

As all the financial institution, it is a very political place. You need to as tough as a cockroach to survive. It is a great name despite a lot of shortfalls. And it is definitely a great place to launch a career.

Pros

Name and rep of the firm

Cons

training and comp and time off and comp and comp. Comp was average at best. The inability for managers to actually manage and teach.

Pros

Great people to work with, Open-minded management, Communication within team and traqnsparency, Respect and cooperation from different business unit. Like the culture a lot.

Cons

Work life balance, deferred cash bonus

Advice to Senior Management

MS should take some serious steps to build up investor confidence, which may require it to take aggressive risk.

Pros

great people to work with
impact is recognised
opportunities to make a difference are offered
mostly meritocratic
lots of people hate bureacracy

Cons

work life balance needs work
lots of type A personalities
short term-ism plagues many in senior management
need more humility, less hubris

Advice to Senior Management

none