Great Chicago Employer - Associate William Blair Employee Review

5.0
Oct 3, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic first hand experience with clients, incredible learning experience across industry and function, and one of the best middle market platforms possible. For high performers and dedicated career professionals this is a wonderful experience that will accelerate any financial or strategic career. The senior professional are absolutely outstanding at what they do and are valuable mentors.

Cons

Organization is growing quickly, which has its growing pains. Specifically, lack of substantive people development program. As in any small company, experiences can vary widely from one person to another, and like-ability is often over-weighted. If you are not a savvy self-advocate this will be a challenging environment.

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5.0
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Pros

Amazing company, good benefits, good people

Cons

None at the moment honestly.

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William Blair Response
3w
Thank you for taking the time to post a review, and we wish you the best in your career at William Blair!
4.0
May 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great deal flow. Get to work on some interesting deals and you will learn a lot as a new analyst or graduate. Firm has some amazing senior bankers who are really good at what they do. There's room to develop if you really want to do it. But i can't speak for experienced roles / hires.

Cons

Office politics don't matter as much as an analyst but it's certainly there and you'll notice that. Work could be a lot sometimes (benched marked against investment banking standard) and middle mgmt. is pretty weak. And there's no incentives to fix that because it won't affect topline.

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William Blair Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to post a review, and we wish you the best in your career at William Blair.
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