BlackRock Reviews

Pros

Great Culture - Flexible & Supportive Lots of Innovation New Technologies

Cons

Can be difficult to climb ladder

Pros

Good culture, good diversity, equality.

Cons

Not much to complain about.

Pros

Nice Working environment; good training

Cons

Need to improve the compensation, but still looks good to me as a junior

Pros

- Global opportunities - Good people and working environment

Cons

Quite a lot of bureaucracy to get through.

Pros

- despite sometimes feeling slow (you've probably been there a while by this point!), it is top of it's game - people are generally smart - work/life/money balance is decent as long as you avoid getting too close to certain teams - if you're good you will find opportunities to grow your career - benefits and pay, like all finance sector, very good - office environment is excellent, IT probably can't be beaten - exec team always thinking of ways to recreate the company, often disruptively but also courageously and fruitfully

Cons

- obsession with Aladdin has resulted in some bizarre management decisions to insource, much to the irritation of the work force - culture can be pretty aggressive if you are unlucky with which team you work in - overemphasis on graduate hiring, a great gig if you're a graduate, terrible if you are a manager and getting very little for the first 6 months of hiring someone - adapt or die culture can sometimes result in pretty horrible management practice - once you get past analyst, career progression becomes infitely easier, unfortunately this means too many are promoted to upper levels and there are too many useless directors floating around, performance management is only really applied to the most junior levels - active management franchise has some pretty crap products and portfolio managers get away with it as their remuneration is weighted more on AUM than at competitors

Advice to Management

back off on Aladdin, hire more laterally instead of graduates, put more pressure on the director population which is bloated and useless, fire active managers who don't perform

Pros

rich platform and global presence

Cons

poor culture and poor governance

Pros

Structure and a lot of training

Cons

Large company, so easy to get lost in corporate malaise

Pros

Great teamwork spirit and great benefits.

Cons

I have nothing negative to say.