Vice President - Anonymous employee BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
May 23, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work/Life Balance is above average Compensation and benefits are excellent Stable Senior Management Team (e.g. key top positions are company founders) and CEO is strong leader One BlackRock culture helps firm greatly helps operations of world's largest asset managers in terms of efficiency

Cons

San Francisco office opportunities are limited especially as leadership opportunities for legacy BGI businesses are being moved to New York. Firm's commitment to quantitative equity is tepid especially in terms of marketing/product strategy. One BlackRock culture isn't always conducive to innovation and optimal business performance especially trying to shoehorn the fundamental and quantitative equity business more and more under the same umbrella for product strategy.

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