Dont work in Operations - Analyst BlackRock Employee Review

2.0
Jan 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

If you are fortunate you will be able who genuinely care about your career development and work/life balance.

Cons

the pay is less than industry average. They will give you more work than can be reasonably done by a single person, even working close to 12 hours a day. Internal mobility is a joke, what matters is who you know, not what you know. In order to get promoted it takes an enormous amount of effort. you have to consistently outperform your peers by doing significant more work and working longer hours at the expense of any outside life you may have. day after day, week after week, year after year.

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