Pros
Still have some benefits like food and snacks, pets in office and matching 401ks. There are people working here who are passionate and want to help each other and working towards a mission, whatever that is. Senior management have tried their best to keep the ship afloat and keep the team morale high but, it is clear that it's best days are behind it.
Cons
As is usual with companies in their death throes, there is intense pressure to do a lot of things and people scrambling to meet unrealistic deadlines. It should be clear to everyone involved by now that this is a lost cause. The strategy (if ever there was any!) has not worked for both business and technology. The constant flip-flop on the direction of firm over the last 3 years has left most demoralized and exhausted. Once open culture has given way to more powerpoints and less information with strict need to know basis. Like most corporates being busy is taken as a sign of being productive. Oh and there is more training and compliance stuff to do now. To be honest, roboadvisors are no longer the hottest tech trend. There is one being opened every quarter and the market is shrinking rapidly along with margins. Blackrock as a company takes a lot pride in it's culture but how they will assimilate successfully with something so 180 degrees apart is beyond me. I wish them best of luck,I guess they will be needing a lot of it. I jut hope that don't make scapegoats out of lower level people and blame them for the this turn of events. BTW the 5 star reviews are not really true.