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Bridgewater Associates

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Bridgewater Associates reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(594 total reviews)
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Nir Bar Dea

65% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Bridgewater Associates has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 594 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bridgewater Associates 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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594 reviews
1.0
Oct 25, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Pay was good, free food in the cafe was nice

Cons

The CULTure consumes everything you do and say. Managers are afraid of doing anything for fear of being issue logged and found at fault. Turnover is insane. The people that survive have the CULTure as their only skill.

2.0
Oct 21, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Pay above market....great benefits, parties, etc....

Cons

Culture where people are simply rude and cut throat. You can fight for truth and still not come off as a.....well you know what. The culture is not consistent across the company and it is simply forced upon people....Buy in or get out and BW uses the "not a fit for the culture" as the ultimate trump card to sort or fire people.

1.0
Oct 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

you get fresh cafeteria food for lunch, but it becomes boring very quickly and everyone gains 10-15 lbs due to over-eating since it's free.

Cons

this place is truly a hypocrisy; everything they say in the principle about trust in truth and radical transparency is so untrue and the opposite of what they do. Everyone jumps to conclusions and judgments almost immediately with no open-mindedness, discovery for truth and independent thinking. What is even worse is the immediate conclusions/judgments are always an assassination on a persons character/values/morals and oddly enough everyone always agrees with the person asserting the conclusions. It is the weirdest thing I have ever experienced and wish for no one else to ever experience this. It's such a unprofessional atmosphere too... everyone cursing, commenting about other and talking about others negatively behind there backs (but people at Bridgewater call this 'triangulating'.. to act like they aren't gossiping... but it's the same thing!). This place is borderline inhumane with the constant harassment and assassination and attacks on people's character, morals and values.

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