PIMCO reviews

It's probably as dead end of a job as you can get from a reputable company. There are three reasons for this: 1. There is little growth in your role. 2. There are few opportunities for lateral movements within the company. 3. You gain very few transferrable or useful skills from what you do. I think (1) and (2) are pretty common pain points for large institutions. (3) is what I would call out if you are just starting out your career, since middle management doesn't really know what they need their analysts/associates to do and for the most part aren't particularly interested in figuring it out (there are a handful of exceptions). So you will most likely be doing a lot of random things that don't add much to your development, and then they'll ship you off to b-school. In my opinion this is a result of the org being both lean (not many resources to develop you) and hierarchical (few opportunities). That's a deadly combo!

Too much politics, even at the analyst/associate level, hence always watch your back. Some departments can be extremely cliquey to the extent that they are no longer professionals, but rather a bunch of high school girls. I've first-hand witnessed gossiping and strategizing how to make competent new hires get fired, simply because certain people get insecure about their own job security at PIMCO.