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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
Oct 21, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Pay above market....great benefits, parties, etc....

Cons

Culture where people are simply rude and cut throat. You can fight for truth and still not come off as a.....well you know what. The culture is not consistent across the company and it is simply forced upon people....Buy in or get out and BW uses the "not a fit for the culture" as the ultimate trump card to sort or fire people.

1.0
Oct 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

you get fresh cafeteria food for lunch, but it becomes boring very quickly and everyone gains 10-15 lbs due to over-eating since it's free.

Cons

this place is truly a hypocrisy; everything they say in the principle about trust in truth and radical transparency is so untrue and the opposite of what they do. Everyone jumps to conclusions and judgments almost immediately with no open-mindedness, discovery for truth and independent thinking. What is even worse is the immediate conclusions/judgments are always an assassination on a persons character/values/morals and oddly enough everyone always agrees with the person asserting the conclusions. It is the weirdest thing I have ever experienced and wish for no one else to ever experience this. It's such a unprofessional atmosphere too... everyone cursing, commenting about other and talking about others negatively behind there backs (but people at Bridgewater call this 'triangulating'.. to act like they aren't gossiping... but it's the same thing!). This place is borderline inhumane with the constant harassment and assassination and attacks on people's character, morals and values.

3.0
Oct 6, 2013

rigid, but friendly environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

great benefits, lots of perks and fun social events are regularly held; the work environment is very pleasant and very enjoyable for the most part

Cons

difficult to advance position and lots of rules- the culture states that people should not judge, but yet employees have to evaluate each other pointing out each other's faults, thus everyone is constantly being judged

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