Morgan Stanley

• Lots of learning opportunities.
• Great people.
• Onboarding latest technology.
• Very good benefits: pension contribution, sport benefit, cafeteria, free e-learning and classroom trainings, Microsoft certifications.
• Professional environment; you can find the experts within the company and ask for help or learn from them.
• Lots of events: social and professional.
• Opportunity to make an impact in important global projects.
• Internal mobility, international mobility options (for good performers).
• Meritocracy, very well-established promotion process. Promotion has great value and is celebrated.
• Great networking opportunities. Do participate in trainings, volunteer events, social events, Toastmasters, etc. You will make lots of great friends.

Technical debt:

• Some of the software and technologies are very legacy, with limited resources to upgrade.

• Lots of hygiene work (e.g., version upgrades, mandated elimination of old technology).

• Support may be hectic, e.g., when supporting a critical system, and sometimes there are no good resources or knowledge about legacy systems.

• You need to find a good team and management. Work experience may be very different depending on this.

• People staying with the firm for a long time will have salaries below the market due to lack of or inadequate salary increases.

Better value medium-level, long-serving employees. They are needed to run the business.

For example, USD-based salaries would be welcome to avoid FX rate drops and high Hungary inflation risks.