Not a tech firm- good for resume - Anonymous employee BlackRock Employee Review

3.0
Apr 23, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-good compensation -lots of social events

Cons

-lots of micromanagement. Managers set in their ways.Hard to feel motivated when you have little to no sense of agency. -The level of bureaucracy is laughable. Start using reason and cut down on all the red tape. It should not take months to get simple tasks completed. -Unsure why this is consistently advertised as a tech firm. The technology is outdated, and all proprietary systems that are rolled out are poorly executed and years behind competitors in functionality.

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