Poor Management - Company does not value people.
Pros
Blackrock has a reputation and a stake in the investment management space that is competitive. There are a few gems employed here including support staff in facilities. Nice office in SF.
Cons
Can be an extremely hostile environment under the hands of inexperienced, poorly trained managers who focuses more on how much you produce rather than your growth through training and education. Hearing managers speak to technology teams as "Purgatory" says a lot about their inability to be innovative and ruled by a select few. References to their employees as "warm bodies" and names on a excel spreadsheets with little interaction with their teams. It's a corporate factory to some degree and they expect you to comply. Most people are extremely unhappy here, but hide it because they've been imprisoned by the mentality that they cannot do better than Blackrock. There's a lot of emotional imprisonment and fingerpointing. *Be Warned* Managers watch the clock and pay close attention to the time you come and leave the office and they love to talk about the weather.