PIMCO reviews

Very dysfunctional culture and senior management. Very few opportunities for growth. None of the typical grooming for the future culture you see at other Wall St firms. They will hire talent from outside at all costs rather than promote from within. Will work you to the bone. High pressure environment with really little reward. Lots of politics, more politics than a cut throat law firm. Everyone is out for themselves. Very high turnover. Ridiculous focus on facetime. Employees are openly chastised and lashed out against. You will not find a single happy person, I have never met a single person who was happy at Pimco. People in the know in the industry know this is a miserable place to work, do not waste your time here, it is not worth it.

PIMCO technology is engaged in a costly effort using 1990s technology to support 2013 trading volumes. Management has no or severely outdated technical skills which has lead to several negative trends becoming entrenched: - developers are uniformly incorrectly incentivised on the speed in which work is completed, software quality is completely ignored - your boss won't understand or be able to value your work so promotions are all done mafia style based on your perceived & demonstrated loyalty to your boss and your penchant for politics - As technology fails to deliver on a project, an elaborate charade of pretending to do everything possible demands very long hours which management regards highly. - Great software is written by great teams and no teams are functioning well at this place, while good employees plot their departures or remain disgruntled, those with outdated skills are the only ones who are not planning on going anywhere since they are so over-paid.