Bloomberg Financial Software Developer reviews

4.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(107 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

100% approve of CEO

96% positive business outlook

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
Sep 20, 2012
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Pros

Good pay. Prestigious name on the resume. Work here only for the name and short duration. Stepping stone for higher ground.

Cons

Really hectic culture. They will make you work long hours. Management will give you small projects to work on. Take your commitment on the projects and then throw a lot of bug fixes and maintenance requests in parallel. I have more than 10 years of professional experience out of which most of the experience is non-Bloomberg. None of the places are as bad as this one. I wouldn't work here. These people are still using legacy technologies like: Fortran, ProgressDB etc which will make you not marketable. A lot of people I know were brought in giving assurances that you will get opportunity to work on .net environment which rarely happens. They would give you some projects in beginning and bury you in maintenance requests. Management spent 70% of their time in meeting and will expect you to find out what, when, how and why of a problem which you don't know anything about. They may pay you higher than market but at the end of the day, you will end up billing 10 to 11 hours a day. I would better consult and don't take any benefits.

1.0
Sep 9, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Free sneaks (but the selection has become worse) - Nice office building in good location - More stable than investment banks and other financial service firms

Cons

- No privacy in the office - Small desk, no cubical - Cost cutting: benefit has been reduced year over year and getting worse - Slow growth - No more free medical insurance. Use to be free, but now the company charge insurance premiums. - High turnover. Many people leave within 2 year or less. - very political place, very hard to get things done. Senior management does not want to take risk by invest in new projects. - flat structure, hard to grow. - Long working hour - Below market average compensation

2.0
Aug 12, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Fast-paced work; Dull moments are rare. But that's becase ... (see "Cons").

Cons

Bad programmers abound. Emphasis is on rolling out software that's quickly written and does its job with no concern for software standards. I'm amazed how much untested software is rolled out to customers every week. Customers are used for testing. Very political atmosphere. Top management encourages competition between different teams, resulting in vitiated atmosphere. Company has grown very big and is dragged in different directions Core product ("The Terminal") has hit a plateau and things will be difficult unless radical innovations happen.

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