Great Company - Executive Assistant Ares Management Employee Review

4.0
22 Feb 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I enjoyed my colleagues at Ares, especially my fellow EAs. I trusted our leadership and thought it was a great place to work. Again, perception is entirely based on who you work with and for. The company truly offers an amazing benefits package I've yet to find anywhere else.

Cons

Sometimes hiring or promotional decisions were made due to cronyism or nepotism, so I left. Again, different departments function differently internally, and my experience may not reflect someone else's. I also believe more EA's are needed to handle to workload, as there has been turnover in my previous role even after I left. Overall, there are plenty of cons, but I still think Ares was a great place to work

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing work environment and benefits.

Cons

Expectation to be in office four(4) days

2.0
8 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Prestige, Good Benefits, snacks in the fridge Some teams are very good. Ideal for someone in their 40s or 50s who is looking for stability.

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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