Director - Director BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
May 7, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Reputation in the market. Interesting projects

Cons

work/life balance. Can be difficult to get consensus across multiple business areas with competing objectives to agree to where required.

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BlackRock Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We are happy to hear you enjoyed the projects you worked on at BlackRock. Regarding your comment on work-life balance, we recently introduced our Flexible Time Off benefit to enable our employees to take as much paid time off as they need with manager approval, to balance work and personal demands, recharge and come back to the office feeling engaged and energized. We believe that the One BlackRock principle is important and continue to strive to create consensus while soliciting diverse views across the firm.

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