Honest review - Director Moody's Employee Review

1.0
May 26, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some really nice people there, there are also others that are nice to your face but stab you in the back, so be careful. Salary ok, a little too woke to the point where people are scared to have a joke in case someone gets offended. You are almost forced to think the way the firm think, dissent isn’t tolerated which is basically fascism but they can’t see that. Benefits comparable for a large corp, holiday allowance decent.

Cons

I was made redundant on a zoom call after years of service. Didn’t even get a thank you, Access cut after 20 minutes and no chance to say goodbye to colleagues I had worked with for years and years. Whole process could have been handled so much better, the process shows what I had always known, they only care about their share price. Redundancy process in no way transparent. Really quite awful. HR terrible.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Flexibility , WFH , Summer Fridays, BRG, Culture

Cons

No parking perks , No allocated desks

3.0
Jun 1, 2026
Recommend
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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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