Avoid this place! - GPAS Analyst BlackRock Employee Review

1.0
7 Oct 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Get to relax in the main lobby by the receptionist when no one is there and watch TV.

Cons

This place is an absolute mess. Never have I seen so much turnover. Everyone is extremely stressed and dissatisfied due to constantly being in crisis mode. The pay absolutely sucks based on the hours you work. 12 hour days and some weekends is a must. They do not train you at all; their expectation is you read a bunch of 'wikis' and start working. And when something goes wrong they want to book meetings so they can yell at you. This work is not finance related in the slightest bit! It is all IT and computer science based where you are basically telling the computer to do all the work (basically you are at a call center). All computational and nothing analytical. You are not building models or analyzing anything instead you are kicking of these computer jobs all day long like an idiot. This type of work experience is NOT transferable in the financial sector. The team I was on was full of snitches. My coworker would go tattle tale and kiss up to the boss any time I would not know something. They hire all year long because people are constantly leaving. They market the job by telling you the base salary via email but cannot properly explain what type of work you will be doing - don't fall for this. I left in 3 months - best decision I have ever made.

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