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AQR Capital Management

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Terrible - Analyst AQR Capital Management Employee Review

1.0
May 13, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch, breakfast and dinner. They also have good selection of snacks.

Cons

Quality of work done by non-PhDs is terrible. There is no career progress of non-PhDs. If you are young and ambitious, this is not the place for you. Don't believe any word they say in career fairs. AQR's starting package is usually very attractive, but there no significant growth later on. If you are not a PhD you will either end up coding in python, or cleaning up massive amount of bad data.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
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Pros

Collaborative, friendly and smart people. A great place to learn with good work life balance.

Cons

Progression at mid senior level is unclear. Comp trajectory is not as competitive compared to peers.

4.0
May 22, 2026
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Pros

Intelligent, nice, and academic people

Cons

Decision making disorganized and a little bit single minded in its approach to problem solving

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