Don't work here - Financial Engineer Moody's Employee Review

1.0
22 Dec 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Hours are pretty Chill, especially as a first year. Pay is kind of mediocre but relative to the work, it's a pretty good deal. You also get like 20 vacation days.

Cons

The work is miserably boring with no career growth. The job description is B.S. so make sure you find out the exact job description from your interviewer whether its modelling, testing or software or whatever. Also, if you do want to work for Moody's, go to Moody's Investor Service which actually does the ratings for Moody's.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
1 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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