No opportunities for career advancement - Property Accountant Ares Management Employee Review

1.0
Sep 19, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The pay and benefits were decent.

Cons

The managers at my position were not clear about expectations and performance. They did not treat employees with respect and engaged in behaviors that I would go so far as to call verbally abusive. They used intimidation and bullying to punish employees that they believed did not "fit in," and used very passive aggressive tactics to deal with people instead of being clear and direct in what their criticisms were. Several of my colleagues reported to me that they were asked to voluntarily quit. I frequently heard managers have public conversations that disparaged people on our team. As an employee for several years that was professional, respectful, friendly and productive, I kept being hopeful that I would be able to advance my career here. However when an opportunity opened up that I expressed interest in, my manager invented false claims about my work performance which (s/he) used as an excuse to turn me down and instead hired someone from outside the company. I found this very disrespectful and unfair and it ultimately led to my departure.

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Pros

Amazing work environment and benefits.

Cons

Expectation to be in office four(4) days

2.0
Jun 8, 2026
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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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