Too many Managing directors and senior managing directors. - Operations BlackRock Employee Review

2.0
Dec 8, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Very good salary and benefits.

Cons

Company has many layers of managers that try to move people around (almost treating small teams as plug-and-play gadgets), this has resulted in high stressed environment where people have no capacity to help each other. Frequent shifting reporting line has no productivity change. Eg. Splitting up teams to let much smaller number of employees to handle original workload. Newly carve out team were not originally hired to embark on “new” promises by senior leaders, most often had resulted in failed attempts and reversion to previous arrangement and employee turnover.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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