Ares Management reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(438 total reviews)
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Michael Arougheti

86% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

Ares Management has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 438 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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438 reviews
1.0
Mar 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Newly public company gives you an opportunity to possibly to grow; but you need to push and play the game. Competitive salary, time-off (if you can get it) and bonus, nice working environment (offices are modern), catered lunch & breakfast, opportunity to travel for many and dedicated assistants to mid-level employees. Company is growing (which can also be a sign of poor planning and excessive need).

Cons

Favoritism rules. Departments do not really interact, nor is cross functioning encouraged. IT lives up to the stereotype; full of impatient know-it-all's. HR is slow and poorly managed, stuck in their offices and usually helpless; slow processes and some incompetent people; recruitment process lags. Management does not seem connected outside of their specific departments. No one is creating a culture. A lot of useless titles and mid-level management. Anyone familiar to investment firms should be prepared for poor work/life balance. As usual, if you're not making the company millions of dollars, you're just a lukewarm body that better kiss the right butt.

1.0
Dec 28, 2014

Senior Staff

Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch, good pay and bonus, good benefits, compliance and Human resources departments.

Cons

Micro management, high turn over, people are promoted for knowing the right people not performance. Unprofessional culture lots of behind the wall criticism, long hours, management doesn't promote careers and casts lots of blame on others, very sensitive and stressful environment. Accounting is by far the worst department in the entire company with the worst management followed by operations. If working for this company choose any but these two departments.

1.0
Dec 2, 2014

sweatshop

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

free food, nice location some of the people are nice

Cons

Managment is unreasonable and disconnected especially accounting. No communication between groups

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