Great culture and place to really challenge yourself - Associate BlackRock Employee Review

4.0
Sep 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You have the ability to really ignite change and make a difference given it is still a relatively young firm with much of an feel Entrepreneurial

Cons

Given it has an entrepreneurial, that also means it does not have a lot of processes in place and you have to work extra hard to establish business as usual. You really challenge yourself but at the same time it's hard to maintain a work life balance and you can easily get burnt out. Hard to get the appropriate staffing needed for the workload.

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