Prestigious but hugely political company - Anonymous employee BlackRock Employee Review

2.0
31 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Brand name. Big platform. Good work-life balance. The good people can be very good and affect your experience positively.

Cons

The bad people can really break your experience here. Hugely political. Popularity contest. Cares more about perception than doing the actual work and competence. People are backstabbers. In a conflict, if the two parties have slightly different rank, the higher the rank a person is, the more weights his/her words has regardless of the truth. Pay is below industry average.

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Cons

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