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•	Implemented triggers and stored procedures and enforced business rules via checks and constraints. 
•	Involved to work with T-SQL, stored procedure to increase the performance tuning in terabyte database environment.
•	Created indexes on selective columns to speed up queries and analysis in SQL Server Management Studio. 
•	Involved to work with complex database solutions in order to schedule the application.
•	Developed complex Stored Procedures and views to generate various Drill-through reports, parameterized reports and linked reports using SSRS. 
•	Created Cross-Tab, Drill-down and Sub-Reports using RDL. Promoted RDLs to Reporting Service Server.
•	Defined the logging process for all the packages, populated it with entries like inserted record, updated record and error record.
•	Migrate Crystal reports to SSRS.
•	Created SSIS Packages using control flow transformation to generate underlying data for the reports and to export cleaned data from Excel Spreadsheets, Text file, MS Access and CSV files to data warehouse.
•	Implemented SSIS packages to extract the data from XML to OLTP environment & Involved to do XML Configuration for SSIS packages.
•	Performed data transfers using BCP and BULK INSERT utilities. 
•	Involved to work with .NET, C#, VB6 environment within SSIS, SSRS to implement the business requirements.
•	Involved to work with Team Foundation Server to managing the source code, keeping track of such things as defects, requirements, tasks & scenarios.
•	Implemented the error threshold using precedence constraints and variables in SSIS packages using business rules as reference.
•	Involved in managing developers, advising other groups in organization on SSIS development, data warehouse development, and ETL development best practices.
•	Created an automated ETL summary report which consists of the summary information for all the loading activities done each day and month.

Bridgwater is known well amongst people in the financial world.  They are known not only for their success as the number 1 rated Hedge Fund in the world, but for their curious company culture.  It was hard for me at first to adjust but in my opinion every company should be run the same was as BW.  The culture was simple if you understood what the goals were.  Just getting to the best information possible, the best possible outcome, the best results require ULTIMATE truth, transparency, and not letting your emotions get in the way of constructive criticism.  There is more to it than that but there was a set of 200+ principles that employees are to understand and try and live (or at least work) by those standards.  These principles make sense.  For example, principle #9 "Trust in truth" while truth itself may sometimes be scary (like you are bad at something) it won't change reality and it will allow you to deal with it better. It always leads to the best outcome.  This may seem a simple obvious concept but it's not in reality.  People who are one way on the inside and believe that they need to be another way outside to please others become conflicted and often lose touch with what they really think and feel.  It's difficult for them to be happy and almost impossible for them to be at their best  Thinking sole about whats accurate instead of how it is perceived helps youth be more straightforward and focused on important things.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Compensation is exceptional.  This is what attracts people to the company. And this is how they own their employees. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The company requires all employees to learn The Principles. Employees are tested weekly and graded on their knowledge. Employees must complete weekly quotas citing other employees doing something wrong. Failure to complete these assessments result in termination. There are cameras in every office, meeting room and hallway, and all meetings must be recorded. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic and abusive culture where they indoctrinate employees into the Bridgewater way. People regularly work 12-16 hour days, no work life balance and spend at least 50% of their time being picked apart in meetings. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
About 50% each day filling required quotas logging in people for doing anything “wrong”, taking tests on the Principles and in long, drawn out meetings picking people apart.

Bar none, the best part about Bridgewater is the intelligent and fascinating people you will work with. I made fast and close friendships with many of my colleagues. There are many opportunities for rapid advancement. While the culture encourages a candor that is refreshing, there are many ways in which the way the culture is adopted that are bureaucratic and can grate on the nerves of a thinking individual. This firm is by definition founder-led and in many ways, what Ray says goes. This wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't the guise of meritocracy and freedom of ideas, but as it stands... 

Although the quality of your work is supposed to win out over hours spent working, this is very much a culture where face time matters. For those commuting from New York, the days can be exhausting and inflexible (6:30 am or so bus in the morning, earliest 6 pm bus back, but with traffic on 95). The firm is really guarded about it's IP, so they are also pretty inflexible about working from home or on the road. 

Bridgewater's unorthodox culture becomes a second full time job. Employees there spend more time rating, judging (and demeaning) each other, than they do on actual work. Employee's thinking abilities are constantly judged and assessed by peers and superiors who have no qualifications or background in psychology, analytical psychology or social & behavioral sciences. Yet this kind of subjective feedback is given by under-qualified individuals that ends up getting memorialized on record, that may or may not impact things like grades, ranking and compensation. The principles and ideas on paper look ingenious however when put into practice, they tend to fail in a spectacular way, as the culture is not uniformly implemented throughout the company.  
***Save your sanity and please do not apply to work at this company as it's certainly not all it's cracked up to be.***

Bridgewater is a great company to work for and it truly cares about it's employees. Building community and strong relationships are some of the most important pieces of working at BW, along with an extremely high level of openness, and honesty. Being open and honest helps to build that level of community with your co-workers. 
Those interviewing at BW need to have a good understanding of what the principles are all about, but certainly would not need to memorize them. Working with great people is the best part of working at BW, but it can be a highly stressful environment at times (dependent on your department).

Bridgewater has a culture of "Radical Truth and Transparency" that is unlike anything else in the world.  It's not for everyone, but either way it's a rare opportunity to learn and grow both personally and professionally.  

If you research the company at all you'll see negative news stories (such as in the "New York Times"), but having actually been there I can tell you that most if not all of is is bull and not representative of  what is an amazing opportunity to experience a working culture that is truly unique and mostly positive.

On the negative side, the culture and workload can be exhausting at times.  Also, if you don't want to know what people really think of your work, it's probably not for you.

Bridgewater will definitely help you grow, but you may not like what you hear to push that growth. Some people at the company take it too far with only speaking in the lingo, but for the most part the culture definitely promotes growth within yourself and to identify the things that can hold you back, not only at bridgewater, but anywhere else you go as well.

I had a great time there, stumbled a few times, but for the most part my time there was great. I would have loved to have stayed because the money isn't bad at all, but I'm also relieved that I don't have to go any deeper in that rabbit hole. It's very much a love hate relationship with Bridgewater

My time here has been the most valuable experience in my life.  The best thing I have learned is about my weaknesses and strengths and how to leverage them to my advantage.  This isn't the place that you should go to try and learn new tech, or really evolve your skills, but more a way to learn how to manage, cut through in logical ways and think about things in ways that others usually don't - ways that will help you to not just look at the thing in front of you but how to best achieve the goals you are really looking to achieve and what the down stream effects of that call is.  Honestly the things that I have learned here will help me in the next chapter of my life - which honestly is only because I want to move coasts.

Bridgewater is very unique in their culture as has been publicized. Those who choose to fight it, fail, while those who also try to embrace it without questioning also fail. The culture envokes an unparalleled journey of self awareness, which in my experience allowed me to evolve more in one year than ever in my life. You can build strong relationships as as a result of the unique culture and it can be difficult if you don't. You need a like minded support system that understands the environment to help you through the extreme difficult times or "valley of despair." Bridgewater is not a place for the faint of heart.

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