Principled insanity... - A Leverage Bridgewater Associates Employee Review

Ray's, cult-like obsession with his principles creates a special form of corporate insanity that creates an environment ripe with paranoia...where the Bridgewater Principle Nazis inflict their own version of the final solution on a daily via issue logs and endless interrogating on principle trivia. Bullying, pettiness and insane focus on the totally unimportant is not only tolerated it's rewarded in the name of the principles. It doesn't take long for people to understand that the reason BW pays 2x the going market rate for "talent" is everyone that's smart enough to be hired there knows they're really being hired as a lab rat in Dalio's private Animal Farm.