PIMCO reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(896 total reviews)
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Emmanuel Roman

80% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

PIMCO has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 896 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PIMCO 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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896 reviews
2.0
Feb 12, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

They were pretty flexible about what time I showed up in the morning and, although it became less and less true as I neared the end of my tenure there, I was given a good degree of flexibility to work from home as needed.

Cons

Managers had limited understanding of software development processes, there wasn't any source control, project management was haphazard and rushed, every project, bug, and/or feature was considered an emergency of dire import, pressure to complete projects within unrealistic time frames was continuous, and major software changes were requested with whimsical disregard for the developers' time and effort. Despite all this, projects we developed were frequently left unused after completion.

2.0
Dec 11, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great resume builder and prestigious firm to work for.

Cons

Incompetent management. Lack of vision and encouragement shown towards employees. Compensation tilted heavily towards senior management. Very difficult to move within the firm, no career path.

2.0
Dec 8, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great 401k Match and Health Benefits. It's the only reason why I stay. Work-Life balance is great, as I do not work after hours, especially due to overtime being monitored very strictly.

Cons

Beware of nepotism within the client billing department. Management will never care enough to listen to lower-level employees' concerns regarding management. Management can dish criticism and harm your reputation within the firm, which stonewalls you from advancement, without ever knowing the intricacies of the work you do and come to find out they cannot even reproduce our work themselves. They refuse to take criticism back and will retaliate against you if you speak up against them. They are still living in the 2000s era and have not been able to adapt to a work-from-home environment. Anxiety-driven continuous micromanagement throughout the COVID Pandemic has caused me and others to feel bombarded with more and more work without any hands-on help from managers, resulting in many talented employees leaving the firm. After the spring cleaning where multiple managers and employees were fired when PIMCO took over, management started looking out for themselves and their own friends in management to save face and will quickly throw a lower-level employee under the bus. Nepotism.

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