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Updated Aug 15, 2022
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "Working with really smart people who genuinely seem to care about what they're doing." (in 84 reviews)
- "Poor management, focus is on managing director salaries, not on clients’ best interests." (in 22 reviews)
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- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Company likes to retain talent
Cons
Employees do not have off day after Thanksgiving. Schedule is according to market
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
Pros
Pimco has some of the smartest and hardest working people I have ever worked with. If you are new to the industry then you can learn a lot.
Cons
Lack of long term thinking by the CTO and short term “performance” measures has lead to a culture of mistrust.
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great benefits and good work-life balance.
Cons
Low pay compared to other companies. Unsure about upwards movement in the company.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Working with smart and driven people.
Cons
Little to no work-life balance and low pay. HR is not very supportive.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Good supervisors, enjoy my colleagues
Cons
Lot of work, long days
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
the pay was extremely competitive
Cons
toxic management culture. managers love to micromanage, rather than doing their jobs.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
smart colleagues from top schools
Cons
PMs think they are the Gods of the firm and everyone else is a second class citizen. Toxic culture. Junior people do not have opportunities to move up.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Good pay, nice headquarters in California.
Cons
Terrible management, and rewarding of terrible culture.
- Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Good possibility of working with really talented developers.
Cons
A lot of overhead that leads to not having specific ownership of products. Difficult to get communication from different teams time-wise. Sometimes requests take over a week. At times upper mgmt. steps in order to escalate issues due to lack of response.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Money Brand Working with smart people Flexible
Cons
Managements lack of moving with the times Not as much opportunity for mobility Relies too heavily on brand vs training good employees to be great
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PIMCO Reviews FAQs
PIMCO has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 696 reviews left anonymously by employees. 57% of employees would recommend working at PIMCO to a friend and 55% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -3% over the last 12 months.
57% of PIMCO employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated PIMCO 3.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at PIMCO to be benefits, career development, coworkers and the cons to be senior leadership, management, culture.