Lack of work life balance - Associate Analyst Moody's Employee Review

2.0
Feb 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible workplace and hours, colleagues are generally nice and very experienced. If you love research and heavy data collation, this is a place for you.

Cons

1. No work life balance - expect to have late night emails/meetings, short turnaround time, no personal time or your personal time is not important to anyone in the company even though this has been advocated in Moody's for some time. 2. Always have no bonus expectation - doesn't matter if the company is performing well or not, the management will always have a new reason why your bonus is not going to be well. 3. Despite allocating more budget to promote racial equality and gender equality, our management tend to look at the problems in US' lens. But this is quite normal for US firms. 4. Promotion is slow and vague, despite expecting you to have unhealthily high workload because the management refused to hire more staff, there is no equal compensation or promotion opportunities 5. Admin work will drown you to a point that you have no time to learn real credit risk assessments. 6. Overly customer centric and ignoring employees' well being.

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Cons

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3.0
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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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