Great future, terrible present - Anonymous employee BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
Dec 21, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

BLK has earned a tremendous reputation in the industry, and has an extraordinarily dedicated and competent management team to steer it through economic crises. It prides itself on on having a single unified culture, and while that is nowhere near being true, it's still rather aspirational.

Cons

Praise and performance feedback are just not the name of the game here. Be prepared to work grueling hours for very little reward. Comp package is pretty standard for the industry - not too low, not too high.

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