BlackRock reviews

Too many of the loudest voices care more about being seen than doing high quality work. This creates a culture where unqualified people are grabbing projects and pushing forward mediocre ideas just to be viewed as “right” rather than being thoughtful or collaborating with their peers. Lots of gaslighting and performative action. This is true for day-to-day work as well as employee networks and community outreach. It’s truly a shame to see so much money and effort wasted in a firm that has the funds and power to do great work.

This is a dying industry The firm's success is based on investing the barest of minimums in staffing and somehow getting by relying on people working ridiculous hours while pretending to promote work life balance: if you can't take time off, the problem is not that you have an impossible workload - it is that You cannot prioritize. It's your fault. As a result, the merest business-as-usual functions operate on a crisis footing most of the time While the firm is always announcing spectacular executive hires, hiring for normal functions is constrained and moves slowly. Compensation is ALWAYS lagging behind the rest of the street. Year-end is designed to reward the top performers with comp that is competitive with the market - if on the other hand, you are not willing to kill yourself, be prepared for significantly lower comp. You may leave in frustration and will not be replaced - everyone else will simply be expected to work yet harder. The technology backbone of the firm is not well maintained. IT budgets are diverted to big new initiatives - some good, some not, but the typical upkeep of systems, models, tools is really really bad. Users outside of technology have had to invest in their own coding skills to build tools to work around system problems