Great place to be! - Assistant Vice President Ares Management Employee Review

5.0
Feb 23, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-Management is very hands on -Competitive salary and benefits package -Growing -Flexibility -Lean teams -Your coworkers are very smart and hard working -Strong focus on culture -clear career paths -Positive and quick response during the pandemic including multiple firmwide townhalls

Cons

-Hours can be long due to rapid growth -Although HR is working on a correction, internal mobility can be limited

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

Amazing work environment and benefits.

Cons

Expectation to be in office four(4) days

2.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
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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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