Challenging and Supportive - Anonymous employee Ares Management Employee Review

5.0
Aug 23, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Highly competent people, very good control of process, especially considering its size. Above-average compensation and benefits, relaxed environment. Meritocracy. Supportive and encouraging bosses. Emphasis on total career development, not just grinding out the instant job. High emphasis on independence and self-supervision; this firm trusts its employees to do their jobs and removes those that don't instead of micro-managing everyone.

Cons

Honestly, none that I can think of. I'm very happy and optimistic 2 years in. Everyone is type A so that leads to inevitable head-butting occasionally but everyone also is a team player so when this happens it's rare and works out fine.

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Cons

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Pros

Prestige, Good Benefits, snacks in the fridge Some teams are very good. Ideal for someone in their 40s or 50s who is looking for stability.

Cons

All teams are different at a company of this size, but working in the middle office technology team was the worst experience of my career. Day to day work was either completely free of directive or projects would be completely blocked by bureaucracy. When a project I was working on went well, there was no celebration and when it was late or had issues there was no reflection. The culture is going into work to a cubicle to sit in zoom meeting straight from nine to five or eating lunch alone each day in a ghost town office. Other teams will speak poorly of each other and gossip. My boss's boss was a bully and would threaten people constantly. Everyone I worked with was "living the dream", overworked and bored to death but making a ton of money. Every team outing they had in three years was just a golf simulator. It just doesn't have to be like this. We've moved on from this cubicle farm company since the 90s, work should be encouraging and fun. Unless you're looking for stability above all else, you can find a better place to work.

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