BlackRock reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(6,578 total reviews)
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Laurence D. Fink

82% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

BlackRock has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,578 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BlackRock employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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7K reviews
2.0
Oct 9, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Job safety, learning opportunities. One has to monumentally screw up to get fired. Also, the firm en large is very skilled and competent There are reasons BLK became the largest asset manager in the US, and the uppermost management really knows what they are doing. Depending on the group, BLK can reward dedication and hard work very well. If you choose the right team and work hard, you will make a good career and learn things you would not learn pretty much anywhere else. In addition to upper management, BLK has a 'skeleton' team of very smart and competent professionals. If you can become one of them, you are set.

Cons

BLK is very team specific. While work experience on a number of teams (Portfolio management, Financial Modeling) is extremely rewarding and pleasant, other teams can be quagmires, filled with incompetents, for the lack of a better description. Keep in mind that the asset manager side and "Solutions" business are run very differently. Solutions is a software company with few of the glamor and opportunities found on the asset manager side. Watch out for your MD. He or she, more than anything else will make or break your career at BLK. While there is a number of very fair, objective and merit-focused MDs, you may run into a bureaucrat/careerist, who will think nothing of using you as a slave and trample your career to make a few extra bucks for him/herself. Granted, this kind of person can be found in any company, but this is probably the biggest danger at BLK, as the upper management does have a clue and leads the company well.

2.0
Mar 27, 2026

Biased for reasons I left!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It’s hard to get in, but once you’re in it feels like an accomplishment! The staff in the canteen, the security staff and the 5th floor hospitality staff are all super friendly. It’s a great name to have on your CV

Cons

Currently 4 days a week in the office, that’s what they call hybrid. Quite tired office spaces/small toilets Expect micro-management from those in senior Director positions. Someone senior checks absolutely everything you send internally. You can be pulled up on a typo very quickly You have to be able to manage a lot of work You are given a laptop but you have to log on to a server to access all firmwide information, which is a pain the day you work from home. They still don’t know how to use Teams effectively, you can’t call anyone via Teams. Nobody really chats in the office, you sit there in silence if you’re not in meetings. Pay is okay, but you definitely work hard!

1.0
Feb 26, 2026

Wouldn’t Recommend

Recommend
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Pros

Prestigious company name for CV

Cons

Poorly managed Lots of office politics Micro-management within teams Long Hours for below average compensation Repetitive work and no training materials Meeting culture with no value-add

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