Associate - PAG Associate BlackRock Employee Review

2.0
Apr 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Your peers are basically your lifeline at work and become your friends outside of work

Cons

-Terrible work life balance, you are working 12-16 hour days -The culture is all about face time so you "come into work unless you are dead", people have been really ill before and still came into work because of their manager -You are expected to say yes to everything that people on other teams ask you to do and saying no means you aren't a "yes person" or a "solutions oriented person" -Nepotism is rampant! Management plays favorites in terms of who gets promotions and bonuses, it's very obvious who rises fast and who does not -The moment you are questioning how things work on the team is when you are considered undesirable and you get staffed on crappy projects -There are some managers who belittle you in front of others and you are expected to just take it -Internal mobility is impossible because you have no transferable skills and your manager will actively work against you to prevent you from leaving -Work is actually project management of Aladdin, it has nothing to do with finance or technology -People are afraid to speak out while they are still on the team because of the bad culture on this team where people are favored over others, so the repercussions are demoralising

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BlackRock Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. What you’ve described is concerning to us and is not acceptable behavior for management. We pride ourselves on developing people managers at all levels of the organization and have an expectation that they provide a great experience for their direct reports.

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