Ares Management reviews

Ares IT is a toxic workplace as several reviews have made clear. IT leaders have no vision and take no accountability for their failures to develop a cohesive team environment and culture. Employees approach leaders with complaints that are laughed off let alone acknowledged. Some managers are promoted not because they are good leaders but because they are specialists. These managers are not ready to lead a team but they are part of the inner circle and not held accountable for their actions that are reprehensible and can lead to psychological damage to employees. Career path and promotion criteria is highly inconsistent. There is broken trust between management and employees. There was a mass exit in IT and another one is on the horizon. Several employees have left recently and more employees will leave this toxic workplace until management reflects internally and decides to make changes at the highest level.

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.