Great place to work - smart people focused on business, great managers focused on people - Anonymous employee William Blair Employee Review

5.0
Apr 22, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Headed in the right direction with all the senior leaders. But the best part is the culture and how they treat their people. Great benefits (from an HR offering) but also great perks such as fully stocked break rooms, many instances of food brought in, social outings.

Cons

Being a financial institution, sometimes the technology is not as cool and new as non financial companies. But they are working on that. Also, because it is owned by partners who buy into the ownership, you really have to prove your ask for expense money. Bring it all back to ROI.

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Pros

Amazing company, good benefits, good people

Cons

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William Blair Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to post a review, and we wish you the best in your career at William Blair!
4.0
May 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great deal flow. Get to work on some interesting deals and you will learn a lot as a new analyst or graduate. Firm has some amazing senior bankers who are really good at what they do. There's room to develop if you really want to do it. But i can't speak for experienced roles / hires.

Cons

Office politics don't matter as much as an analyst but it's certainly there and you'll notice that. Work could be a lot sometimes (benched marked against investment banking standard) and middle mgmt. is pretty weak. And there's no incentives to fix that because it won't affect topline.

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William Blair Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to post a review, and we wish you the best in your career at William Blair.
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