Morgan Stanley Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than a year

Pros – Good for developing a basic understanding of research and investment banking.

Cons – No further opportunities at the KPO.

Advice to Senior Management – They should monitor the interviews.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Morgan Stanley

Pros – Decent company to start your career.
Learn as much as you can (On your OWN)
Nobody will bother you if you work good, until and unless you start getting into politics

Cons – Can't think of a long term career (Looking at the present environment)
Politics growing day by day.
quality of talent going down day by day which is getting reflected on quality of work.
decreasing discipline.

Advice to Senior Management – Please keep a keen eye on on mid level management and try to hire some real managers.

Current Employee – been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good working environment, decent compensation, equal member of a global team. Freedom to find solutions to problems by yourself

Cons – No growth opportunities, quality going down over time. Technology is only adopted if there is a requirement by the business, not your firm to be in if you are a techie.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – High quality work and skilled people around

Cons – Lots of work to do

Advice to Senior Management – Sometimes you need to hire less skilled people to do some general work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Morgan Stanley as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Organized, challenging and great mentorship

Cons – I enjoyed all entire internship period. No cons to report

Current Employee – been working at Morgan Stanley as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – company offers great compensation (2x-3x)

Cons – mostly legacy work constituting of xml configuration, support & chase up
mostly poor development methodologies & practices (very less TDD, Agile, old technologies)
workaholic culture where most employee sit atleast till 8 PM (starting from 10 AM)
more & odd working hours, lot of calls
no BA role (business analyst) creating a great mess over the requirements, developer need to handle everything
distributed qa team which makes it difficult to communicate over phone
tight deadlines - do it either way attitude (quality of work does not matter)
mostly procedural work for Java Developer (no OOPS, functional aspects)

Advice to Senior Management – There should be a round of interview for the new hires where interviewers should clearly explain the nature of work.
Interviewers should not ask rocket science questions to lure the candidate and then land them in the creek.
Pairing should be practiced to solve the tickets/fixes so as to lower the work pressure for reverse engineering.
working hours should be reduced to normal as humans are on earth not only for work.
Should align the candidates as per their skill set rather then at random so as to respect the individual's aspiration

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Morgan Stanley for more than 7 years

Pros – Good atmosphere, good systems, talented staff

Cons – Slow career growth and low salary

Former Employee – worked at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than a year

Pros – work culture is good as people are really helpful. the senior management shares its experience . the is work life balance with various activities happening.

Cons – work timings can be a problem some times especially month end

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Morgan Stanley for more than 3 years

Pros – people only interested in work life balance would find it good

Cons – no motivation,no appreciation, management biased approach and worst compensation payout

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Morgan Stanley full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – -- Open door culture , easily approachable senior management. you can share and discuss your issues
-- Flexible hours and you can maintain work life balance
-- motivated to share your ideas and contribute in meetings

Cons – Not a company for average person . There is too much pressure to perform and ultimately you are thrown out.
Custom old technologies.
Started as centre of excellence but now moving towards an offshore model .
international mobility is limited.

Advice to Senior Management – Attrition rate and dissatisfaction is growing , please do take this seriously .

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company