BlackRock reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,562 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 6,562 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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3.0
Feb 4, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Client-focused organization that has a track record of hiring really great people. Plenty of opportunity to learn a ton. Prestigious brand that you can't help but feel proud to work for.

Cons

Comp is lower than peers and we lose a lot of top people as a result; the firm just doesn't keep your wages competitive with the market over time. If you're talented and in an investment role, you can generally double comp by leaving. Benefits range from extremely lean to non-existent. Very quick to pay people down in bad years, but no real upside in good years. Management is far more concerned with share price than employees. Headcount has bloated in unnecessary areas in last three years. Culture has diminished in recent years and a lot of the fun is gone.

3.0
Oct 5, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pretty good work/life balance - longer sprint cycles mean it's not hard to deliver on requirements.

Cons

They are not a tech firm. It's the technology arm of a slow-moving, bureaucratic finance firm. Not embracing WFH - very strong years with whole staff WFH, but now are pushing for 3 days and eventually full week back in office. Lots of my team is leaving because of it.

2.0
Apr 30, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Product based - Finance domain

Cons

One of the worst team of HR you will see. Too low pay-scale as per market standard. When other (even service based companies) will offer 25 LPA, BlackRock offers hardly 20 LPA. All they keep on saying is that "BlackRock is a brand" and then their CTC is basically based on this single line. They will offer almost 30-40% less from the market standards and tell you that BlackRock is a big brand so you should choose wisely n all. Also to be noted, once they send you the CTC over mail, you have hardly 24 hours to decide whether you want to join the company or not and they will really force you and pressurise you to such extent that you wont have chance or time to think and decide whether you should be joining this company or look for other better options out there (there are plenty of better companies trust me) Apart from this, when you receive the CTC over email, even if you try to do negotiation with/without holding any other counter offer, HR will start behaving rudely with you and your offer will most probably be revoked. Yes, that's true and it happened with me twice. In fact, as soon as you tell them about negotiating the offer, they will start deactivating your candidate account from their workday platform behind the scenes and you wont have any idea whats going on. They will just assume that you wont join the company. Ridiculous and worst HR and hiring team I must say. Shame in the name of a big product based organization. Better look for much better options like Goldman, Morgan Stanley etc.

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