Good place for stable career but poor compensation growth for home grown talent - Trader BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
Jun 15, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good and flexible culture, strong and ethical leadership, the resources of Wall Street are available at your fingertips with the BlackRock name, job stability

Cons

really frustrating compensation growth for employees. time and time again I've seen really talented people leave for greener pastures solely because of money. and management decides to fill the hole by hiring someone external and pay them more. why not just make your employees that you've developed and nurtured happy ?

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BlackRock Response
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Thank you for sharing your input. We are glad to see you are enjoying our flexible culture and the values that drive our leadership and firm. We are disappointed to hear that you are not satisfied with the way colleagues are compensated. As you probably know, at BlackRock, we follow a pay for performance structure that rewards all employees fairly for their contributions and allows them to share in the firm’s growth and success. If you’re unsatisfied with your pay, we encourage you to discuss this matter with your manager and HR.

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1. The executive leaders in the firm are doing a great job 2. Many people in the firm genuinely have a sense of pride working there 3. The (base) compensation is compatible with the market; bonus, however, is another story. 4. For the first ten years of my career in the firm, I made some great memories and made some great friends.

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The culture of my organization started to shift away from a sensible approach and career nurturing to a hostile and confrontational one around 2 years ago. In several all-hands meetings, we were chastised for being "too nice" and were made clear that things would change. The anonymous feedback in the meetings was cut short or eliminated entirely because it didn’t paint a positive picture. In the last 2 years, 1. I was often asked and expected to answer, "Now.. what can you do for me?" in my 1:1 with my latest manager. 2. I was reminded more than once that English is my second language 3. I was reminded more than once by the manager that I should not speak during the meetings I was invited to because they weren’t in the right timing or not appropriate to the subject being discussed during the time There were many of these examples in the last two years with the firm that just seemed inconceivable; nevertheless, I had a great ride and met some genuine people that I consider friends even today.

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