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Oaktree Capital Management

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Oaktree Capital Management reviews

3.6

49% would recommend to a friend

(206 total reviews)

Armen Panossian, Robert O’Leary and Todd Molz

66% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Oaktree Capital Management has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 206 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oaktree Capital Management employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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206 reviews
1.0
Nov 6, 2020
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Pros

Well respected name on street Will soon be part of Brookfield I will be leaving soon

Cons

Oaktree does not care about employees. The company likes to say buzz words like diversity but when you look at upper management there is no diversity. Time and time again corporate puts their best interest ahead of employees. Since the Brookfield transaction we have seen them laying off employees with long tenures and given them very little severance/benefits despite many years of employment. They don’t say it but Brookfield will be paying them out based on earnings multiple so it makes sense they focus on savings. Just when you think it couldn’t get worse they decided to dramatically increase health insurance premiums under the guise of making it parity with the industry. When this happens during a pandemic, it should tell you enough about the company. None of this should be surprising as the culture starts at the top and the founding partners struck a better deal than the other partners at the firm. Avoid if you can career wise as wages are now indexed to “inflation” and they don’t care about employees like they did before company went public.

3.0
Sep 10, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The people, co-workers and colleagues in the firm, are generally fantastic people.

Cons

Nine out of the last ten years were great, but Oaktree has changed a lot since going public, getting a CEO, etc. Some of the top Managing Directors are people that you don't want to work for, that don't value the work you do and/or your contributions. The firm has begun eliminating positions (i.e., laying people off) for reasons that seem to discriminate against older workers and others who are at the top ends of the salary scale, and this is really bad for morale.

2.0
Aug 12, 2020

Toxic Fund Accounting Group

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work/life balance Clean offices Big company (if you enjoy that)

Cons

Nepotism in Accounting group Extremely poor management and training Too many layers for promotion

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