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      BlackRock

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      3.7

      69% would recommend to a friend

      (6,601 total reviews)
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      Laurence D. Fink

      82% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      BlackRock has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,601 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BlackRock employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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      7K reviews
      2.0
      Jan 10, 2009

      Stable Job, no work-life balance

      Financial analyst
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      Pros

      The best reason to work for BlackRock would be job stability. They are not a hire and fire kind of a firm rather they believe in being understaffed. The average age of employees is lower compared to other firms. They hire from some of the top colleges. There are "some" brilliant people you feel proud to work with. The company believes in respect for everyone and the senior members are very communicative. The career opportunity is limited although they say that you can move around in the firm and do what you like. Pretty good at food and travel allowance

      Cons

      There is absolutely no work-life balance at this place. They are always understaffed and in a group like Portfolio Analytics you are looking at a 70-75 hours week. The compensation is low compared to the hours you put in. The work atleast in the first year is repetitive and gets monotonous. The firm seems to have passed on knowledge through the word of mouth. The systems/processes are not well documented. The attrition rate is high.

      2.0
      Oct 9, 2008

      You can luck out and do very well, but if you are not happy after the first year -- run.

      Associate
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Job safety, learning opportunities. One has to monumentally screw up to get fired. Also, the firm en large is very skilled and competent There are reasons BLK became the largest asset manager in the US, and the uppermost management really knows what they are doing. Depending on the group, BLK can reward dedication and hard work very well. If you choose the right team and work hard, you will make a good career and learn things you would not learn pretty much anywhere else. In addition to upper management, BLK has a 'skeleton' team of very smart and competent professionals. If you can become one of them, you are set.

      Cons

      BLK is very team specific. While work experience on a number of teams (Portfolio management, Financial Modeling) is extremely rewarding and pleasant, other teams can be quagmires, filled with incompetents, for the lack of a better description. Keep in mind that the asset manager side and "Solutions" business are run very differently. Solutions is a software company with few of the glamor and opportunities found on the asset manager side. Watch out for your MD. He or she, more than anything else will make or break your career at BLK. While there is a number of very fair, objective and merit-focused MDs, you may run into a bureaucrat/careerist, who will think nothing of using you as a slave and trample your career to make a few extra bucks for him/herself. Granted, this kind of person can be found in any company, but this is probably the biggest danger at BLK, as the upper management does have a clue and leads the company well.

      2.0
      May 27, 2025

      Not Great!

      Associate
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      I had a good manager who made it a little better

      Cons

      High expectations for medium pay and bad benefits.

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