Bridgewater Associates reviews

Every great place still has areas they need to improve: Beuracracy- I think that as the company grew very fast and had to change from an individual owned/run firm to an institution, understandably mgmt didn't quite get the balances right across the new structure, processes, etc. that we're put in place. That's led to a firm that has some beuracracy now. People know it's a problem and are actively working to get rid of it and make things better. I think we're on the path but not quite there yet. Technology - technology sort of ties to the first con. The quality of tech provided across the firm is inconsistent and still has a ways to go in terms of meeting the needs of the depts and being competitive with what other businesses have. Diversity- company isn't doing enough here.

All that being said, it's definitely not the easiest place to work and not for everyone. In my five years, I saw lots of people come and go, some only after a few months working there, so there can be a good amount of turnover. Within my first year on my first team, pretty much everyone else on my team when I started (about 10 people) had cycled out and I was the most tenured person on the team and due to team manager shakeup, experienced about 4-5 different managers in that first year. Two of the teams that I worked on were pretty hectic in terms of having bad processes making things really inefficient and creating more work than needed. As some one living in NYC, the daily commute sucks as well. It's much better than it could be given there's a bus that picks up employees in the morning and drops them off in the evening, but it's about 1-1.5 hours each way and it sucks being stuck to a bus/train schedule.