Bridgewater Associates reviews

-people only value top-down thinking, do not value engineering, bottoms-up approach -can be a terrible place to rot if you don't become a top performer -a lot of the smart people are actually just very argumentative for the purpose of winning debates, unnecessarily abrasive and condescending and some people are hilariously evident brown nosers who are just hanging on to their job as a "culture carrier" who don't deliver much real, tangible value to the business. It can take a while before these people are sorted out (ex. demoted from Asset Class Leader to Compliance Analyst)

1) Incredible bureaucracy --you will have several managers most of which focus only on the principles not investing 2) Principles tests, principles quizzes, principles tidbits 3) If you can't speak the principles language, you cannot communicate with management. Debates begin and end with Ray's bs aphorisms (many of which are contradictory). 4) Technology hairball is likely unparalleled in investing world. Prepare to spend all your time debugging old excel files that only work in MS 2000. If reports or processes break (and they always do) get ready to spend 2 hrs in issue log meetings for being illogical and lacking sufficient paranoia. 5) Company is completely paranoid and functions more like a prison than anything else. Prepare to have every aspect of your life probed and recorded. Access to information is so restricted it is difficult to accomplish anything 6) Non-compete seriously shackles subsequent job search. Many firms have no fly rules around bwater (former) employees.