BlackRock reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,561 total reviews)
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Laurence D. Fink

83% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

BlackRock has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,561 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
5.0
Jul 12, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

encourage initiative and thought provide encouragement complicated and challenging environment great colleagues with vast institutional knowledge who are willing to share

Cons

long hours recently expanded, feels like wholesome undisclosed rule of lunch at desk complicated systems, can lead to complicated projects

2.0
Jul 8, 2010

Prepare for Micro-Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

BlackRock is a strong brand, which in some parts of the world is widely recognised. The firm is the largest buy-side (investment management) firm in the world by a long way, leading to a breadth of potential opportunity and experience. Compensation is competitive to good

Cons

Decision making is often opaque and is nearly always centred in New York, decisions seemingly being made by a small group of people The company is very inward looking, particularly with regards to technology and is wedded to a lot of poor, dated, highly proprietary technology The management style from the top of the firm is to micro-manage people and centralise control

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