A sad place to work - Anonymous employee Moody's Employee Review

1.0
Feb 12, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are folks here who hold high titles and earn great salaries for years, while doing little or no work. And noone touches them because they are white, middle aged, straight men. For the rest of us, it is a miserable place to work.

Cons

Where to begin...lack of growth and development. Lack of meaningful opportunities. Diversity exists on paper, but not in management or day to day work. Miserable place for women, who get layered under lazy and unproductive male managers, who in turn take credit for work performed by others. A technological dinosaur, which pours money into "innovation" that never materializes. And so on...

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- 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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