“Growing” Environment that Constantly Strives to Improve - Software Engineer BlackRock Employee Review

4.0
Sep 15, 2021
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Pros

- Company’s product is high impact (manages more money than any other single software, possibly) - Company’s eagerness to fulfill “fiduciary duty” really rubs into you - Company constantly makes the effort to make itself a modern “fintech” company in culture and tech stack as opposed to its origin as a in-house software branch for a non-tech finance firm - Somewhat a continuation of the last point — company is pretty open in terms of adopting new tech stacks

Cons

- Tech debt runs rampant without a firm incentive/structure to decrease it (but this can be said for many companies) - Culture clash between “old school” business/finance centric minds and “new school” fintech minds result in volatile engineering decisions at times. - No central tech stack vision (every team to their own tech stack and best practices), an unfortunate casualty of effort to adopt all the latest and greatest tech.

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Cons

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Cons

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