Blackrock in Europe

BlackRock is known for it's quality of work in the US, but what about the rest of Europe? Specifically; Germany, Netherlands and UK.

Are all Rocks created equally?

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BlackRock is very legit at least in the UK after the acquisition of BGI. Very nice office building and people are very smart. Compared to the US they tend me hire more kids from undergrad to PMG (Fixed income, equities, multi-assets, private equity partners) and Financial Markets Advisory (FMA). One of my friends who's in the fixed income modeling team goes to clubbing a lot during week days, which somewhat shows the w/l balance is a bit better than banking. Banking hour in europe generally is not as crazy as in the US anyway. But you will travel a lot if you are in a small team such as PEP, which only has 8 professionals including 1 MD in london. They rotate in Princeton a lot.

 

Thank you for your prompt reply. It's exactly the reason why I doubted the UK Rock, as it seems to have an relatively large amount of undergrads in PMG. (as per Linkedin)

Any input on Germany/Netherlands?

 

Their FMA group is pretty excellent, its been involved in a lot of the GIPS sovereign issues and bank stress testing. I think it takes 2 undergrad/yr the rest are experienced or internal.

 

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