Company details

New York, NY

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

https://www.blackrock.com/

About the company

BlackRock is a global investment management firm that runs active and index strategies, cash management, and alternatives for institutions and individuals. BlackRock also operates iShares ETFs and provides risk and portfolio technology through the Aladdin platform to asset managers, insurers, and other financial institutions. BlackRock works with clients on long-term investing goals across retirement, wealth, and institutional portfolios. BlackRock positions the company purpose as helping more and more people experience financial well-being.

Locations and presence

BlackRock operates a global office footprint across dozens of countries and runs early-career hiring across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. BlackRock job postings describe a hybrid policy that typically requires at least four days per week in the office, with some groups requiring more time on-site.

Palpable Score

80.0

/ 100

BlackRock offers one of the clearest structured entry points for graduates and students through multi-region internship, analyst, insight, and apprenticeship programmes with published steps and deadlines. The main trade-off for early-career candidates is consistency: the hiring funnel is highly standardised at the start, but candidate and employee feedback shows team-by-team variability in timelines, workload, and day-to-day support.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

18.5

/ 20

The company runs recurring global early-career programmes including the Summer Internship Program and the Full-Time Analyst Program across multiple business areas and regions.

BlackRock offers non-university routes through Apprenticeship Programmes, including an 18-month UK apprenticeship for school leavers (London or Edinburgh) and a Singapore apprenticeship tied to a national polytechnic talent scheme.

The company also runs earlier-stage pipeline programmes like Spring Insight (plus off-cycle and placement options referenced in programme FAQs), which widens access beyond final-year hiring.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

15.0

/ 20

The company publishes a plain-language “How we hire” flow for students and graduates that spells out online application, pre-interview assessment, and interview formats (including potential case studies, presentations, or group exercises).

BlackRock provides unusually specific rules in regional FAQs, including time limits for the pre-interview assessment and clear consequences if candidates miss the five-day completion window.

The company has mixed public candidate experience signals, including reports of clear multi-round interviews but also posts describing long waits after HireVue-style assessments, which reduces predictability.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.5

/ 20

The company structures the Summer Internship Program around an initial orientation, then on-the-job training with day-to-day responsibilities, plus a speaker series, mentoring, and networking with employee networks.

BlackRock describes the Full-Time Analyst Program as a two-year experience that starts with an orientation to the firm’s purpose, business, and strategic priorities.

The company sets expectations for ongoing training in apprenticeship pathways, including explicit professional development during the apprenticeship and the possibility of a full-time offer after completion, but public evidence is thinner on how consistent mentorship is across teams.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

15.4

/ 20

The company publishes salary ranges for the 2026 Full-Time Analyst Program in pay-transparency locations (for example, New York City and California), broken down by business area with clear annualised ranges.

BlackRock includes stability signals in role postings such as eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus and a benefits package that references healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits.

The company does not consistently publish pay ranges globally across early-career roles, and external review data shows mid-range “compensation and benefits” sentiment, which limits confidence in pay fairness across teams and locations.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

14.6

/ 20

The company reports a high internship-to-offer pathway, with public commentary from BlackRock recruiting leadership stating that about 75% of summer interns receive offers for full-time analyst roles.

BlackRock has broadly positive early-career sentiment in role-specific review slices, including Analyst reviews averaging around 4.0 out of 5 on major review platforms, while some sub-functions (such as Aladdin and technology) score lower on work-life balance.

The company’s public outcomes data is incomplete for early-career progression, because BlackRock does not publish conversion rates by region, promotion timelines for analysts, or early-career retention metrics beyond the internship offer-rate anecdote.

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