Morgan Stanley

Staff is incredibly technical and compensation is above average. Good position for junior people and TAs who like in-the-weeds technical work and coding.

Middle and senior management are mostly long-tenured techies with no 21st-century IT management skills. They lack strategy, vision, or leadership.

Major technologies are old (10+ years), proprietary, over-engineered, and geeky/amateurish. Out-of-box thinking is discouraged and viewed as a "threat".

Professional hires with more real-world experience should avoid Morgan. They'll be frustrated by the lack of management sophistication and the absence of leadership and direction.

Replace current middle and senior managers with outside professional managers that have modern, fresh ideas.

Put in place sincere transformational programs to replace aging proprietary technologies.

Establish a commercially-minded IT culture which emphasizes better design and strategy.