Only ever bad news - Associate BlackRock Employee Review

2.0
Jan 14, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people I work with are really nice people. Lots of smart people to learn from.

Cons

The company has completely changed since I started. - Terrible compensation - Layoffs/reorgs all the time - the company makes so many cheap decisions to save a few pennies (such as new Edinburgh office location, no Christmas parties, no travel) which is leading to extreme impact on staff morale. - 4 days in the office with rumours of return to 5. - culture has completely eroded as everyone is miserable. Morale was really shakey up until comp day. Low pay rises and bonuses despite working extremely hard and two challenging years personally due to cost of living. Meanwhile we were able to announce acquisitions on the same day. It has potential, but there is going to be a lot of people leaving in the next 5-6months so I would wait for the dust to settle.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

decent pay and good name drop to add to your experience and resume

Cons

everything!! since this was a contract role I was brought in to complete a project with 0 leadership or direction. I was left to figure out everything completely on my own from finding a computer and a desk and a phone to figuring out who to contact in India etc to help me revamp the entire global website on the backend. I literally had to show up to work everyday at least an hour early so that I could possibly try to find a open desk sometimes I had to work on the floor or find somewhere in the lunchroom I could set up in the corner this went on for over a month.

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