Does BlackRock pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, BlackRock employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at BlackRock. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at BlackRock?

68% of BlackRock employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated BlackRock 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at BlackRock?

Analyst (999) , Associate (938) , Vice President (576) , Director (298) , Summer Analyst (158) , Software Engineer (149) , Intern (131) , Financial Analyst (76) , Portfolio Manager (71) , Managing Director (64) , Business Analyst (55) , Administrative Assistant (47) , Summer Intern (43) , Associate Software Engineer (36) , Senior Software Engineer (36)

What are the pros of working at BlackRock according to real employee reviews?

"Great culture and very easy to connect with people both in and outside the office." ((in 854 reviews)); "Blackrock has some great people working very hard in most departments and provides solid operational support." ((in 668 reviews)); "good work life balance but now with 4 days in the office it is much harder" ((in 444 reviews)); "Good benefits and wokr enviroment" ((in 383 reviews)); "paced environment with a lot of learning 2) Colleagues are smart 3) Great brand to have on your resume" ((in 172 reviews))

What are the cons of working at BlackRock according to real employee reviews?

"long hours and lack of work" ((in 232 reviews)); "Poor management with too many silos" ((in 192 reviews)); "Low salary and too corporate." ((in 165 reviews)); "Bad managers can result in terrible experience." ((in 115 reviews)); "Compensation is low and not transparent" ((in 102 reviews))

What are employees saying about BlackRock layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about BlackRock layoffs and their outlook for job security at BlackRock in 2026.

BlackRock reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,550 total reviews)

Laurence D. Fink

82% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.7

Career opportunities

3.6

Culture & values

3.4

Work/Life balance

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Senior management

BlackRock has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,550 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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Reviews by job title

7K reviews

1.0

Nov 10, 2022

Avoid If You Can!!!

Analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Good medical benefits - Really smart people at the firm - Unlimited time off

Cons

- You are treated by your hierarchy level (Analyst > Associate > Vice President > Director > Managing Director) rather than as a human and employee of the company. Most analysts are snobbed/ treated as unimportant because of their level. - BlackRock gives multiple trainings to People Managers but most of them are still toxic. Had many folks leave due to this and that was the main reason I left. - Long work hours cause you are are salary based and not hourly based. You find yourself working about 13hours everyday and some teams would ask for more. - You’re given unlimited time off but rarely allowed to use it cause there is always SOO much work to do. - Huge politics in promotion and growing your career at the firm.

1.0

Jul 22, 2021

Toxic Environment. Every Rumor is true

Associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Fair compensation. Decent benefits. Reputable company to have on one's resume.

Cons

As political, bureaucratic, cutthroat as it gets for a single company . The widely publicized attempts at improving diversity are all lip service. I work in a department in which not a single person of color was promoted in two years. As for work life balance, Blackrock culture encourages you to work to the bone so they can profit off what remains. Unlimited time off is merely a selling point that employees are terrified to ever use. They preach a meritocracy based system, but that is from the case.

1.0

Jun 4, 2020

Great for brand recognition but not for professional development

Manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great health benefits, retirement contributions, flexible time off

Cons

- Deeply rooted institutional racism that prevents black and brown communities from achieving success - Culture of favoritism - reminiscent of “in/out” crowd behavior that favors compliant white employees - Not a meritocracy - Extreme lack of trust and over indulgence on micromanagement. - HR does not adopt any of the policies / recommendations it pushes out to the business. - Below market pay - Fully aware of issues with no action plan to remedy RUN

BlackRock Response

5y

Thank you for sharing your input. While we are glad to hear you enjoyed our benefits, we are very concerned with the issues you raised. At BlackRock we pride ourselves on treating our colleagues with respect and emphasize the importance of recognizing each person’s contributions. We have attempted to look into this however, it would be helpful to get some additional detail so we can adequately investigate your concerns. Please contact us at blkfeedback@blackrock.com so that we might gather more information.

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