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Ares provides great medical benefits and job security if you are willing to give up your life to make your manager look great.

Ares tends to promote individuals that lack basic management skills. When you address any concerns with upper management and HR no one wants to get involved. They allow managers to continue to destroy teams, rather than addressing the teams concerns. 

When an entire department leaves, they tend to promote managers into another department until they ruin that one too. HR wonder why there is so much turnover.

Managers aren’t involved in day to day operations and have a hands off attitude when it comes to actual work but when they are on the hook for providing team updates they want to micromanage the information out of you. 

I recommend Ares for someone who wants to work and get paid well but doesn’t mind the bureaucracy, nepotism, and long hours. 

Bonus and salary aren’t great compared to the long hours and multi hats you have to wear each day. 

I enjoyed my work experience with Ares.  I was not unhappy with my position and would have stayed at the company had they not had a reduction in work force.  

Typical day was fasted paced work environment.  Day to day duties could change depending on what needed to be accomplished on that particular day.  I often assisted other co-workers who were back logged which gave me the opportunity to work in various departments of the company.   I got along with all my co-workers  as our regional office was not large and was a nice environment to work in as we all had a close working relationship.  Hardest part of the job was last minute projects that needed to be completed in a timely manner.  Best part of the job was just the day to day operations allowing me to work independently with very little supervision.

Very unprofessional senior executive staff. Lots of rumors and open gossiping amongst the senior staff. Supporting staff and analyst are often uncomfortable but cannot speak up against their manager's and directors. It is not rare to feel discomfort and like a fish out of water here. Only work at the LA office if you are rich and well connected otherwise you will be treated like scum.

Please consider that i was a temporary employee for Ares and i did not work at headquarters.  Ares is a fast growing company that is having challenges with the growth.  For a firm with a little over 1,000 employees, the bureaucracy and compliance seems suited for a much larger organization.  Decision times are longer than needed and outcomes are average.  If not for a strong investment team, Ares would be struggling more.

The Analysts and Associates are miserable for the most part, and work extremely long hours. The division between staff, junior and midlevel professions and the higher-ups is very noticeable, and there is very little socializing between the groups, if any.

I was just a contractor here.  The joke was this was the one place that made it clear we were only contractors.  The IT department was extremely competent, to the point where are jobs were too easy.

Overall a good company that has grown through acquisition. It has a good reputation in its particular sector. As such securing a position at this place will help your career progression. It is in a great location of LA. It has great benefits. Collaborative work culture.

This is a great company to work for. I am pleased that they have high standards for their employees to go by. I want to also thank you for your hard work. When leadership sets the tone of the organization in such a positive manner the entire operation runs smoother.

Ares is now essentially a bank.  Not the exciting kind like Drexel under Milken.  The value comes from "winning by not losing".  If you want a finance job on the west coast, and you're okay with repetition, it is one of few options, and therefore, it is good, I suppose.

Not a great experience as a temp. The office had moved locations and changed management, since then it has been unorganized and poorly managed. Was not promoted past temp date, but was continuously asked to stay longer.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Vice president 19 salaries reported	$210,132 per year
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Associate 12 salaries reported	$141,667 per year
Summer analyst 10 salaries reported	$97,000 per year
Assistant vice president 12 salaries reported	$190,208 per year

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