Great place to give your career a kick start - Anonymous employee BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
Jul 15, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great open culture. No one micro manages. Very smart people around you. Lots to learn.

Cons

Owing to so many mergers, many teams are spread out and not much of interaction with them. Legacy systems cause too much confusion and chaos. Some structure required. Teams in NY can be very arrogant and need to depend on them for everything.

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Pros

Branding branding branding!!! an incredible brand, and having it on your resume opens some doors but not all.

Cons

The Preqin acquisition never really found its identity after becoming part of BlackRock. It felt like the focus shifted from listening to clients to fitting Preqin into a broader BlackRock strategy. As AI changes how firms access and analyze private market data, simply being a data provider isn’t enough anymore. My impression was that Preqin’s long-term value is likely to come from being integrated into the broader Aladdin ecosystem and APIs, rather than remaining a standalone platform. Leadership would benefit from spending more time listening to customers and the teams on the front lines instead of assuming they already know what the market wants.

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