Great Place to Work with - Senior Associate, Internal Audit Ares Management Employee Review

4.0
Aug 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Collaborative and Supportive Culture Ares is praised for its teamwork-driven environment, where collaboration across teams is encouraged. Many employees highlight the company’s strong values and positive culture as key reasons they enjoy working there - Competitive Compensation and Benefits Employees report fair pay and solid benefits, including health coverage, free meals, and job training. The company also offers flexible work arrangements, with a hybrid model and flexible hours being common.

Cons

Despite being a global firm, Ares Management offers relatively few short-term assignment opportunities across its international offices. Employees seeking cross-border experience or rotational programs may find the options limited. Additionally, career progression tends to follow a more linear path, which can feel restrictive for those looking for diverse, accelerated growth through varied roles or geographies.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very collaborative culture with a strong connected leadership team; a high-growth organization that provides great opportunities for performing team members - many examples of strong mobility (employees growing through promotion as well as employees moving locations and teams). I have been with the firm for more than 5 years and it has been a completely positive experience - I've grown significantly in responsibility and compensation.

Cons

Nothing that comes to mind.

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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