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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

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      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
      1.0
      Aug 19, 2012

      Good at investments, but everything else is broken

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      training about investments is superb at the entry level people are generally smart and accomplished

      Cons

      extremely inconvenient location mediocre pay for investment professionals (much better pay for everyone else relative to industry standard) stunted career path no personal time constant surveillance/paranoid security culture of fear and badgering people into agreement with senior management serious kool-aid factor management overconfident in themselves (have large problems they have not solved in years but confident that using their same approach will work to solve these problems)

      4.0
      Jul 24, 2012

      Tough but great if you can make it.

      Technology lead
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      Pros

      Honesty, truth and excellence. Fighting for what you believe is in great if it doesn't get lost in red tape.

      Cons

      Gruelling. Tough place to make it if you don't have what it takes. They will wring it all out of you if you aren't an Alpha and I don't mean in returns.

      1.0
      Jul 11, 2012

      Bridgewater - constantly walking on eggshells.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good Pay Free Food Benefits - - aka what Ray Dalio considers "Gifts" Good place to learn and move on with your career

      Cons

      Way too much time is spent on analyzing people and their weaknesses Personal time disappears A majority of the people you work with are faking it to make it - - throwing people under the bus is encouraged. Employees can be made an example of very easily, perhaps even end up as a case-study and "probed" on film for the company's viewing pleasure. Cultish-egotism - Those who do not buy into the Bridgewater way are treated as inferior, illogical, weak and sometimes outcasted. Many fake it in order to avoid any repercussions.

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