2.0
Jul 8, 2010
Anonymous employee
Current employee
London, England
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
BlackRock is a strong brand, which in some parts of the world is widely recognised. The firm is the largest buy-side (investment management) firm in the world by a long way, leading to a breadth of potential opportunity and experience. Compensation is competitive to good
Cons
Decision making is often opaque and is nearly always centred in New York, decisions seemingly being made by a small group of people The company is very inward looking, particularly with regards to technology and is wedded to a lot of poor, dated, highly proprietary technology The management style from the top of the firm is to micro-manage people and centralise control