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Bridgewater Associates

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Bridgewater Associates reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(593 total reviews)
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Nir Bar Dea

66% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Bridgewater Associates has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 593 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bridgewater Associates 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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593 reviews
2.0
Mar 19, 2017

Technological Disaster Zone

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- A good percentage of smart people in the investment departments - Good compensation

Cons

- If you are an engineer or technologist working here will be negative value added to your learning process. Like taking a step into a parallel dimension where open source never existed and excel and badly designed home grown software are the solution to all problems. - Culture defines and rewards Not Invented Here syndrome - Focus on thinking about doing rather than doing is excruciatingly painful for anyone that has worked in a real engineering driven organization. - Most people do not have experience working elsewhere so do not know what 'good looks like'. - It takes incredible amounts of time to get the simplest administrative tasks done. - Highly restrictive and lengthy (2 yr) non compete will limit your ability to work elsewhere - No quality management or leadership to speak of; failed succession plan.

5.0
Mar 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*Perks *Smart people *Cache of being at the best hedge fund

Cons

*Management *Boring work *Culture *Poor infrastructure *High turnover and dealing with inefficiencies

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