Not a great place to work - Anonymous employee Morningstar Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home during the pandemic

Cons

1) Low Pay 2) HR policies are arbitrary and often unclear 3) Management in india is disconnected from global management 4) Sometimes the reporting line is to offshore managers who have little idea about local policies and market standards and practices 5) In the name of pay equity, management has started to curtail benefits and salary hikes 6) Too many pivots, Global management does not want to share power and control to india management which leads to unclear and unrealistic expectations from global management that are bound to remain unfulfilled 7) The role you were hired for may become obsolete in a matter of months due to lack of strategic direction and you will be expected to resolve problems without any control or influence on the factors causing the problem 8) You will be setup for failure from day 1 and be made a scapegoat for problems that cannot be resolved even by your manager 9) This is not a startup yet it has all the classic problems of a startup, this is due the fact that the organization has grown quite inorganically

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Really kind people work here, for the most part everyone I have worked with is smart and I have learned so much from them. There are great benefits: unlimited PTO, 6 week paid sabbatical is earned after 4 years of employment, 6 month maternity leave. Great location of an office. Great work life balance.

Cons

Not very competitive pay and it is easy to hit a ceiling in your career development. New HR policies are kind of strange, will not promote you unless you make enough money to be promoted which they designed the system to make it so you cannot go up. HR has also laid people off because they make too much money without considering the consequences of removing senior employees with unique/not stored intelligence vital to the company. They also hired a bunch of remote employees, then implemented a 4 day required in office rule no matter if you live states away from an office, which pushed hundreds of people to quit, not receive their bonus, and not require M* to pay them severance. It didn't use to be this way but the last year or so has been strange.

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