Facebook/Google to Blackrock
Has anyone made a switch from FB/Google to Blackrock? Is the culture and WLB massively different? Just wanted to know someone’s experience.
Will completely depend on the role. G/F are engineering companies where as Blackrock is a finance company - so who constitute tier 1 citiZens will depend on that. Quants are slowly becoming more important in financial firms - so something to take into consideration
I am looking at a marketing/lead generation role.
As the others have said, it will depend vastly on your role and team. As a general rule of thumb, anyone client facing/revenue generating is a first class citizen. I’m happy to answer any questions you have or connect you with colleagues who moved here from FAANG.
Wlb at BLK is simply unmatched. Too good. But that’s it. There’s nothing else enticing.
BlackRock is a good company with good leadership. You will most likely take a pay cut, and the caliber of engineer won’t be the same (on average), but if you’re looking for teams I think there’s a hedge fund within BlackRock, the systematic investment group, financial modeling group, and the risk and quantitative analysis group. I’ve also heard of an AI Lab that seems pretty cool, but don’t know as much about it. Best of luck!
I made the opposite move. BLK is great but definitely very different (industry, culture, WLB). What role or team at BLK are you looking at?
Marketing MD