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Bridgewater Associates

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YMMV - Exchange Traded Products Trader Bridgewater Associates Employee Review

3.0
25 Mar 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-great top-down thinking training similar to an experience at a consulting firm -great experience straight out of school to see a radical mgmt approach -smart people mostly

Cons

-people only value top-down thinking, do not value engineering, bottoms-up approach -can be a terrible place to rot if you don't become a top performer -a lot of the smart people are actually just very argumentative for the purpose of winning debates, unnecessarily abrasive and condescending and some people are hilariously evident brown nosers who are just hanging on to their job as a "culture carrier" who don't deliver much real, tangible value to the business. It can take a while before these people are sorted out (ex. demoted from Asset Class Leader to Compliance Analyst)

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5.0
11 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Incredibly unique and insightful team culture

Cons

Bottlenecked by middle management decisions occasionally

4.0
21 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting place to work if interested in finance

Cons

Wide variety of cultures across teams

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