Overall decent place to be - Associate Software Engineer BlackRock Employee Review

4.0
Jan 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Market matching salary - Yearly raise and bonus - Very good benefits - Smart collegaues + diversity - Large scale company, great challanges - Great for networking - Nice office - Macbook + generous developer tools (eg. AI etc) - Flexibility

Cons

- Competetive environment, hard to get promotions - Required overtime, standby/oncall (team dependent) - Some legacy systems which makes extremely hard to move faster - Very few team building activites / company parties - 4 days in the office, and it's really crowded, the office population exceeds the optimal levels now

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Cons

The Preqin acquisition never really found its identity after becoming part of BlackRock. It felt like the focus shifted from listening to clients to fitting Preqin into a broader BlackRock strategy. As AI changes how firms access and analyze private market data, simply being a data provider isn’t enough anymore. My impression was that Preqin’s long-term value is likely to come from being integrated into the broader Aladdin ecosystem and APIs, rather than remaining a standalone platform. Leadership would benefit from spending more time listening to customers and the teams on the front lines instead of assuming they already know what the market wants.

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