From an IT perspective - Anonymous employee BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
Jan 8, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A great place to get your career started, especially if you're on the finance track as there's many business lines you could learn from.

Cons

Applications may look shiny on the outside but the technology is very dated. They are trying to change this, but it's slow going. A good deal of bureaucracy to deal with along the SDLC (although this is probably true of many large firms, it feels especially acute here).

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Cons

The Preqin acquisition never really found its identity after becoming part of BlackRock. It felt like the focus shifted from listening to clients to fitting Preqin into a broader BlackRock strategy. As AI changes how firms access and analyze private market data, simply being a data provider isn’t enough anymore. My impression was that Preqin’s long-term value is likely to come from being integrated into the broader Aladdin ecosystem and APIs, rather than remaining a standalone platform. Leadership would benefit from spending more time listening to customers and the teams on the front lines instead of assuming they already know what the market wants.

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