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Blackmore Partners reviews

3.4

68% would recommend to a friend

(95 total reviews)

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54% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Blackmore Partners has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 95 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Blackmore Partners employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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95 reviews
1.0
Aug 6, 2015

STAY AWAY. This place is a scam

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Pros

There is none. Absolutely none. This place is a scam.

Cons

This place is a scam and I'm convinced that all positive reviews were paid for. This entire place is ran by interns. AND I MEAN EVERYTHING. CEO doesn't do anything at all. This place is the very definition of internship exploitation. You don't gain any experience since 99% of the time you're on the phone trying to convince someone to sign up with you. The place isn't even in an office building, it's inside an apartment complex, that should give you some red flags. If you want actual experience, look somewhere else. Stay away from this place.

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Blackmore Partners Response
10y
Thank you for your feedback! As you noted, you get what you put into it. There is a reason we only added the three month summer internship to accept in-school students this year, to help the higher work load due to deal flow we are having this summer. However, with the recent two 3-month in school students quit with one email the night before and the other no show with no communication for some days at the last week the person promised will be there to transition the person's tasks to others , we are reconsidering if we will do the same next summer again. talking to executives and listening to the client meetings, preparing and do companies research are related to M&A activities. If you have a way of thinking how M&A should be already, then you should not need to come here to learn our model, as we also tried to explained our model in the interviewing stage and training period. People only had done 1 month or so of the internship then quit, we cannot say if what you have experienced is the same as other interns who completed 3months or full 6-months had experienced, but we thank you for your comments and suggestions. We made it clear that your 3-month internship and our process will not likely to involve transaction. If we do have the needs, we will need more experienced people like other firms do. For using Bloomberg, we are still in conversation and discussion with them, and after the trial, every company has right to compare with other tools and make decision by their needs and budget. What I don't understand here, is that many people I have noticed, don't communicate directly with their company or supervisor if they do have disagreement or different point of views with the company policy or goals. if you just quit in one day, then come up to this social media place to share what you think, there is no stand you are taking, and how you can make a difference in any organization? We have exit survey and review, and we also don't see you put those comments and suggestions as you put here onto your complete survey. We will continue to improve our communication with our interns, so they may take this as a place they can grow and see their career goal and direction from here (many of them do, and they got the jobs they want after exploring and doing things here). There are so many things we cannot explain enough. Again, we appreciate all the suggestions and criticism, We will take back to examine ourselves. We also have commitment to our interns who takes their time here, no matter what they think this internship is for them in the end. The program is designed to be a boot-camp, nothing easy about it. The internship is designed for those who want to get jobs period! And those that complete it get great jobs because they got the experience that employers want; the ability to be on time, the ability to do the same tasks over and over and faster and faster and to figure out how to be better at it. The treatment is very "get the job done culture" and not for those that need praising is spot on.
4.0
Jul 4, 2015

Good place to start for recent graduated

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Pros

Blackmore Partners is a good place to start for your career path. you will gain experience in Private Equity industry and learn about deals cycle. Also, the company gives you a chance to connect with c-level people and people who works in PE firms. Good to learn from their experience and build your stronger path in the future. Another good thing in Blackmore Partners, you will meet and work with many great colleagues. In multicultural work environment, everyone is willing to share their experience and always supports each other. Lastly, you may need to work in different tasks which is very challenge. But you will really improve your time management and multiple tasking skill.

Cons

It is full-time unpaid internship. You will work in the very basic tasks and pretty boring things in the first few weeks. So, you may need to have high self motivation to put yourself.

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Blackmore Partners Response
10y
Thanks for your feedback. Yes you need high motivation and that muscle of motivation no matter what the task at hand is key to getting and keeping high paying jobs!
2.0
Jun 18, 2015

Decent

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Pros

Gives you something to write about at your resume that does not add up eventually when you go to interviews

Cons

When you really get down to the business core of this company, they are basically recruiters. Not remotely connected to finance, you cannot get access to most of the numbers. Most of the time, you can only sit at phone calls and listen to other people negotiate

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Blackmore Partners Response
11y
Thank you for your feedback. You said "Most of the time, you can only sit at phone calls and listen to other people negotiate" - that is what deals are about "negotiating". In the first few months Interns are in listen mode in meeting with PE firms, owners and our executive that is leading the deal. Early on Interns do not get access to all the financial data due to the confidential nature of our agreements and need to know. The deal partner at Blackmore decides with whom to revel information. Typically, an intern who has been at Blackmore 60-90 days will move to support a partner and will have access to a deeper level of the deal funding process. The internship expose interns to the behind the scenes negotiating of the Private Equity work and the process to get the funding. Deals are about great talent, getting great executives requires recruiting them and telling how private equity works. Based on the nature of the feedback, you did not complete your internship, so of course it does not translate to get a job. In the last 3 months we have three complete their 6 month internship and all got well paying jobs in Investment banking, consulting and Private Equity. You get out of this internship what you put in.
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