Appalling and Inhumane Long Term - Anonymous employee MSCI Employee Review

Just a chronic bundle of insanity and even cruelty. Unrealistic deadlines. Frantic and frenetic activity to please shareholders, with no regard for order. And a dog-eat-dog everyday mentality in the bulk of senior associates, VP's and Exec Directors. Now it's all starting to show, as the more sane and professional keep moving on. And company slowing down. Those managers who stay can't easily get work anywhere else. Senior management doesn't care about developing people. So the majority of management is just symbolic and hanging around, poorly trained as managers. Milking the cow if connected. Most are put there and allowed to stay because of some kind of party connection. A school or family-to-same school as Senior Managers type of deal. It's hard to believe the 5 star reviews here, because everywhere people (unless they are the privliged family connection managers) are stressed and afraid. Few people trust working for them. And that hasn't changed. They can easily let managers crush someone's idea before evaluating it. Another management group delayed making overdue updates even though associates were begging for it and it proved costly not to do. Poorly trained and risk averse management kept complaining about the junior levels, who turned out to be right. Other management knew one of the corporate services workers had a family member battling cancer and the worker couldn't therefore do the office politics and parties. The team member was very competent and well liked, so insecure but connected management conspired to try to get the worker to quit. Just Insecure nonsense to keep others down. Others can't deal with the long rapport building process for sales so Coverage can be pressured even more. And only when others become aware of the horrible treatment does Senior, remote management mysteriously appear to offer a buyout package. They tell the employees to get lost. And earnings per share might go up that quarter by a fraction of a cent, on the salary which has now been exported. And the immediate managers are often promoted to more incompetence, getting a share of former team members salaries, as their promotion raise. Is it any wonder that few really trust working for this place?