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Bridgewater Associates

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Transparent culture and principles are impossible to implement with day to day workload. - Administrative Assistant Bridgewater Associates Employee Review

2.0
Apr 28, 2014
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Pros

The pay is above market, breakfast and lunch are free everyday, and there are meditation rooms.

Cons

The company prides itself on the transparent culture and principles, but with the workload you are given it feels impossible to be able to actually implement these principles. Their Principles are wonderful in theory, but in practice it didn't work for me or several co-workers in my department. You are supposed to be transparent and let everyone know what you are doing at all times (via email updates, shared daily journal entries, etc.) however this led to no one taking responsibility for anything because it was "everyone's responsibility to make sure everyone else is doing their job."

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