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      Ares Management

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      Ares Management reviews

      3.4

      55% would recommend to a friend

      (441 total reviews)
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      Michael Arougheti

      86% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

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      Ares Management has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 441 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ares Management employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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      441 reviews
      1.0
      Jun 19, 2019

      Toxic culture - avoid if possible

      Associate vice president, operations
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits are decent, office space is nice, people are smart

      Cons

      The office environment is toxic and revolves around politics. Management will ask for feedback but when you share honest feedback, they use it against you as being negative. HR is powerless at enforcing policy since it’s all driven by the senior leadership who pays them. Finance is a disaster and has no process. Investment groups are siloed. IT is a joke, can’t get basic programs to function. Stay away from this dysfunctional company

      5.0
      May 23, 2019

      good

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good place to work at

      Cons

      not a bad place to work at

      1.0
      Apr 6, 2019

      Bad culture and mismanagment

      Senior associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Catered lunch and good benefits. The compensation is good but that's about it. there has been a lot of growth but there is a cut throat culture with very poor management or clear message on strategy. Lots of infighting between the different groups.

      Cons

      The biggest problem at Ares is the lack of infrastructure and ongoing mismanagement. While growth had been strong, the company has failed to build an infrastructure to support the business. Lack of access to information makes it difficult to do job effectively. Hours are tough and people are rude. Worst part of all is the infighting between groups. Constantly infighting between direct lending, liquid credit and PE. Real estate might as well be another business. Do not work here. Better options at other Alts shops.

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