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Bridgewater Associates

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Career in the hole, non-compete crazy, culture/cult is suffocating - Technology Associate Bridgewater Associates Employee Review

1.0
Oct 11, 2014
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Pros

- You can learn about yourself but it comes at high price and mostly just confirms what you knew about yourself - Free food, gym (not sure tihs is any pro ...)

Cons

- Your progress in any professional way is brought to a halt - Though claiming to be meritocracy, it is very subtle political environment - Amount of procrastinating is UN-believable, for example you can spend talking 30 minutes of your 30 minutes meeting talking about what is the goal of your meeting and whether makes sense (true story !) - Non-compete is UN-bearable, they are now stopping everybody from leaving to other financials - Technology is 10-12 years old - Members of Management Committee (MC) are nodders and Ray-pleasers who see it as opportunity to get shares and be secured for life - Ray keeps saying he is retired and literally makes all the decisions

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Cons

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