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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

65% 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
Apr 10, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Some clever people. Food and drinks provided.

Cons

Fake culture - maybe 10% of population really believe in this BS, the rest adapt and fake it and abuse it. Recruitment process invalid and therefore high turnover of staff because of incorrect processes here. To carry on, the focus on weakness rather than strengths is just plain crazy. Those that survive are merely adaptors and not creators.

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)

3.0
Sep 21, 2016

Technology Associate

Anonymous employee
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Pros

good place to learn how to work. lots of smart people. good compensation and perks/benefits. teaches you how to deal with conflict.

Cons

culture doesn't quite make sense (if you haven't already been brainwashed). company cares just a bit too much about its own good than that of its employees. shamed into working long hours in most roles. only rewards given are monetary -- don't expect much of a pat on the back for good work.

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