Bad management, bad commission plan - Relationship Manager Moody's Employee Review

3.0
Jul 27, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many acquisition led MA to have a wide range of offering

Cons

Those acquisitions have not been handled the right way, with a clear lack of people consideration. New hired are getting better paid than people who are there since 5-10 years and have proven a track of records performing. Commission plan completely changing, a RM is now also responsible for losses (e.g. : if you sell 1 million a year in new business and lose a client contract of 400k then only the difference 600 k is your achievement taken into account). It is basically giving back commissions earned on previous deals, and it is often not due to the RM at all, but to product, legal or other concerns.

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Pros

Work and Life balance culture

Cons

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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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