CYA culture - Associate Product Strategist Moody's Employee Review

2.0
Jan 25, 2013
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Pros

9 to 5, will a full hour for lunch, are a long day for most employees. Great work life balance with "deadlines" relatively meaningless as they are routinely postponed.

Cons

Many levels of management limits career opportunities. Pay and promotions are based less on your work quality than if you are part of the "boys club", whose members repeatedly prove over many years that they always do as directed by management without any question. Expect to spend most of your time avoiding making decisions and maintaining the status quo. The brightest and most ambitious employees often leave within 6-18 months.

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 1, 2026
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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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