Is Bloomberg a good company to work for as a Financial Software Developer?

Financial Software Developer professionals working at Bloomberg have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 107 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Bloomberg employees being 4.0 out of 5 stars. Search open Financial Software Developer Jobs at Bloomberg now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Financial Software Developer interview questions at Bloomberg .

Does Bloomberg pay Financial Software Developer employees well?

Financial Software Developer professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Bloomberg with 5.0 out of 5 stars based on 107 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 22.2% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Financial Software Developer salaries at Bloomberg.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Bloomberg?

Software Engineer (739) , Senior Software Engineer (449) , Account Manager (317) , Analyst (301) , Sales (175) , Intern (171) , Sales Representative (168) , Analytics (132) , Global Data Analyst (123) , Reporter (108) , Data Analyst (106) , Software Engineer(Internship) (103) , Financial Analyst (99) , Financial Software Developer (93) , Financial Sales and Analytics (92)

What are the pros of working at Bloomberg according to real employee reviews?

"The people are great and they provide dozens of opportunities to get to know the company more." ((in 784 reviews)); "Great culture and a clear vision on how to be a highly successful private company." ((in 728 reviews)); "Good work life balance: 8am to 6pm and you are done at 6pm most of the times" ((in 530 reviews)); "Pay is good and if you show up on time and write tidy programmers notes you'll never get fired." ((in 376 reviews)); "Free medical/dental and free food (snacks and drinks)." ((in 323 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Bloomberg according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management staff with limited “leaders”" ((in 412 reviews)); "A bad manager can do what he likes and the company will cover him irrespective of your complaints." ((in 280 reviews)); "long hours (contracted hours are at least 25% more than industry average) with no flexibility." ((in 238 reviews)); "There is no career progression for developers and this is by design." ((in 110 reviews)); "Too exhaustive work, with extended working hours" ((in 106 reviews))

Bloomberg Financial Software Developer reviews

4.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(107 total reviews)

Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

100% approve of CEO

96% positive business outlook

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Financial Software Developer employees have rated Bloomberg with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 107 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Financial Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Bloomberg is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Financial Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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107 reviews

2.0

Mar 20, 2014

ok place for the first job

Financial software engineer

Recommend

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Pros

Training Training Training is soooooo helpful and gain a lot of knowledge, cs and finance. Pay is ok for the first job.

Cons

OLD technologies and many old guys....... Have to debug fortran, even passcal code sometime. You will not be able to keep competitive if working in such a company......

2.0

Mar 8, 2014

Ok First Job, Very unsatisfying job in all aspects

Financial software developer

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Pros

When free food is the bigger pro you can think of, there isn't much to like about. Benefits are good too I guess. And since they hire a lot of fresh-out-of-college grads, it can be a good starting place.

Cons

The work is very unsatisfying on all levels. New technologies are seldom used, a lot of work pressure and lot of workload, HR doesn't care two hoots about you in any aspect, boring and tedius work, very closed environment, very hierarchical and very bureaucratic, very few career growth prospects, very narrow learning environment as teams are not encouraged to learn from each other and/or collaborate.

4.0

Feb 21, 2014

Good in bursts until a reorg hits you

Financial software developer

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Pros

The best learning experience of all in core C++, server side coding, templates, JS async framework etc. Then out of nowhere a reorg happens and you are left with nothing that you built with so much hard work. Good pay, amazing benefits (best in NYC), pretty building, rarely fires (always puts on performance plans), very fast learning CEO discussed voluntary work that I did with them, they have amazing matches with your community involvements (they matched for me $5k to my charity for my voluntary hours)

Cons

Too many reorgs (not just my team but others too) Very competitive, hard to get an exceeds expectations. Proprietary tech, at times too fast paced, steeper learning curve

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