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      Ares Management

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      Ares Management reviews

      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (439 total reviews)
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      Michael Arougheti

      86% approve of CEO

      58% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.3

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      Ares Management has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 439 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ares Management employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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      439 reviews
      1.0
      Aug 11, 2011

      Senior management is the most arrogant vindictive management I have ever seen.

      Senior systems engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free lunch, beautiful office, and access to tons of technology.

      Cons

      Management is horrible and micro-managers (either you have managers that can't plan anything or you have managers that want 50k steps to change a hard disks). Incredibly long hours followed up by zero thanks for working hard. Overall the place is run with management by fear. Consequently moral is horrible, people are scared, and thus the stress is extreme.

      2.0
      Feb 15, 2024

      Great pay, work hard minimal play mentality, bureaucracy and internal politics

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Ares pays their employees well and offers many growth opportunities internally

      Cons

      Ares has issues with communication between managers and subordinates. Employees need to "play the game" of internal politics, staying late for the sake of management seeing you in seat, skipping lunch and thinking twice about taking PTO to "prove your dedication". Subordinates are usually left in the dark with no communication from managers/MD's regarding upcoming changes (good or bad) and are encouraged to "keep their head down and work" for the sake of job security. Upper management/MD's are under extreme stress from C-Suite which trickles down to lower managers and is therefore taken out on subordinates. Promotions are not determined solely on skill/ability, but more-so how close you are with upper management/MD's. Word of mouth, hearsay, and "who you know" has more weight than skill or accomplishments. Communication walls between MD's, managers, and subordinates promotes a culture of gossip, politics, and fear of the unknown. Ares has a VERY high turnover.

      1.0
      Feb 9, 2023

      Not great

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Strong brand, smart coworkers, intellectually stimulating

      Cons

      Sweatshop, the org just needs bodies to fuel the machine

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