Good work-life balance, terrible pay and career advancement - Anonymous employee Moody's Employee Review

2.0
5 Aug 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance (essentially 9-5), stability

Cons

Operations are ridiculously inefficient. Management is trying to reduce costs but has no idea how wasteful their policy of hiring 5 incompetent people to do the job of 1 or 2 highly qualified people is. Career progression is effectively meaningless. You may be promoted often because there are a ridiculous number of levels, but the promotions do not usually result in additional responsibility and pay increases are negligible. There are essentially 5 levels before you are even remotely considered to be in a position to have direct reports and even at that point they basically will give you 1 person reporting to you more as a token than anything else. Work is relatively dull since most of it is routine and could be automated. Incredibly hierarchical structure

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Pros

- Good company wide culture (see notes below on ratings specific culture) good people - Great work life balance (especially for finance in NYC) - Opportunity to learn from most of the c-suite - If you want the return offer you can usually get it (only know one person from my year who wanted one and didn't get one). - The ratings intern program is essentially gauging if your competent to extend a return offer. You don't actually do much work for your team.

Cons

- Can't touch anything an actual associate does because of regulations in industry (don't get exposure with what you'll actually be doing full time). - Because you can't touch anything you basically spend the entire summer being talked at by senior analysts (learned a ton but can get repetitive). - Hybrid schedule is only really adhered to by associates on your team, so the office feels deserted at times. The seniors don't come into the office much. The ratings floors (separate from the rest of the business) have a stale and silent feeling. - Because you don't really do much for your team it's hard to create relationships with them. - Your capstone project can be on a completely different industry then the one you're assigned to.

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