Bad culture and no respect for employees’ mental health - Associate Ares Management Employee Review

1.0
20 Nov 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Reasonably good salary and bonus. Biggest private lender with good track record so plenty of people with expertise to learn from.

Cons

Very bad culture. Calculative and competitive teammates. Managers don’t care about employees’ mental health and have no boundaries/ respect for employees’ own time. No recognition for performance but blaming culture for little mistakes. Managers would tell you the team is very collaborative and lively but in fact people make sick jokes and bully each other all the time. Pay is good but you will see your mental heath evaporate. Think twice before you apply.

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Pros

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Cons

All teams are different at a company of this size, but working in the middle office technology team was the worst experience of my career. Day to day work was either completely free of directive or projects would be completely blocked by bureaucracy. When a project I was working on went well, there was no celebration and when it was late or had issues there was no reflection. The culture is going into work to a cubicle to sit in zoom meeting straight from nine to five or eating lunch alone each day in a ghost town office. Other teams will speak poorly of each other and gossip. My boss's boss was a bully and would threaten people constantly. Everyone I worked with was "living the dream", overworked and bored to death but making a ton of money. Every team outing they had in three years was just a golf simulator. It just doesn't have to be like this. We've moved on from this cubicle farm company since the 90s, work should be encouraging and fun. Unless you're looking for stability above all else, you can find a better place to work.

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