PIMCO Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

1. Many things to learn 2. My team's managers were friendly and open to providing constructive input 3. Solid full time employee benefits, the longer you stay the better

Cons

1. No work life balance, this could be worse depending on your team's functions 2. Sink or swim culture, depending on your team it could also be dog eat dog 3. Negotiating higher pay is not a likely possibility, the x % increase each year is more or less non-negotiable.

Pros

Ability to work with some of the best talent in the investment management industry. Great pay and average benefits for an entry-level asset management role. Great location in Newport Beach. Nice gym and facilities. PIMCO is a great name on your resume and people who know anything about finance will be impressed you work here.

Cons

Long hours and poor work-life balance. Cutthroat culture and political work environment. Co-workers can't be trusted and the floor is not a very friendly environment. The onboarding process is a joke. Nearly impossible to transfer internally to another department or to be promoted to PM. Portfolio Managers are treated like gods and anyone below them aren't treated very well. Co-workers aren't interested in helping you learn and you practically have to beg for their time to teach you things. Part of the reason for this is because the firm is too lean and turnover is so high. If PIMCO did a better job onboarding employees and providing better career growth, the other "seasoned" employees wouldn't be so stretched thin since people wouldn't leave. I wouldn't recommend working here unless your a PM.

Pros

Good work/life balance and opportunities for growth.

Cons

High turnover rate within the company

Pros

solid culture with minimal office politics

Cons

work life balance can be tough at times

Pros

Good benefits and Salary. Interesting projects building and enhancing trading systems which manage billions of dollars. On the surface the culture is friendly with frequent opportunities for community outreach and decent work/life balance depending on the department. In my experience the technology department has collaborative and friendly people.

Cons

Exposure to PMs (Portfolio Managers) and working on trading systems can be a blessing and a curse. It is exciting and rewarding when things are going well, but the experience can quickly turn toxic when something goes wrong. Fast passed and chaotic requirements from the business can lead to a stressful and reactive software engineering experience.

Pros

Great benefits and pay scale

Cons

Militant in its work style Micromanagement Not a great work life balance

Pros

- Benefits - team dynamic - work/life balance

Cons

- manual processing - pay - workload - boring work

Pros

Great pay, benefits, and education.

Cons

Corporate environment, so not a great work life balance.

Pros

-work Life balance isn’t bad especially compared to street

Cons

-junior talent is not regarded highly -lack of career growth -if you don’t have an MBA you won’t be promoted - poor bonus compared to street -lack of benefits -poor management -poor diversity and inclusion initiatives

Pros

Provide all kinds of service and activities to make your work efficient, and your life abundant. Work life balance is good.

Cons

Sometimes a little political things happening