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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

      49% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Senior management

      3.2

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Work/Life balance

      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
      May 20, 2013

      Complicated, paradoxical, not for everyone

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Lots of intelligent people to work with High professional standards Decent compensation (after a few years) Challenging problems

      Cons

      Lots of growing pains Sub-par technology Unquestioning acceptance of The Principles Institutionalized willingness to flay people emotionally in search of "the truth" Hard to function if you don't agree with the accepted wisdom Cultish attitudes towards the founder Uneven management and culture unintentionally encourage witch hunting Lots of stuff (like backstabbing) ostensibly counter to company principles, but still happens

      2.0
      Apr 8, 2013

      Pays well but is a cult

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Bridgewater pays really really well

      Cons

      It is a complete cult

      1.0
      Mar 19, 2013

      Terrible place to work

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good brand name. Food is OK.

      Cons

      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.

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