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
3.0
Nov 30, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

1) Great Benefits. Besides food, health, etc., there are also a lot of great educational opportunities. 2) Smart People. Most of the people working here are really intelligent and a pleasure to work with.

Cons

1) Career paths are almost non-existent, but senior management has been taking many steps over the last few months to fix this. Needs to be seen how this plays out over the next few months. 2) Work experience depends on the team you are in. Some of the teams are really great, but some of them are pretty bad too. 3) Politics. The internal politics can be really bad (again, some teams are better than others). 4) By and large, software practices range from poor to mediocre. There are a few teams that are an exception to this (the infrastructure teams are really great, but product teams tend to be far more "hack a fix, then worry about negative consequences later". The infrastructure team, OTOH, use top notch software engineering practices). 5) The company is a weird mix of transparent, yet opaque. There is a huge effort to appear transparent, but where most important decisions, even at the lowermost levels, are concerned, the decision making process is very opaque.

4.0
Nov 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Many excellent trainings: both on Finance and Programming. The intern program is nice and I learned a lot from my teammates.

Cons

The work can be boring if you have been there for many years. Messy code base make it hard to change and maintain.

3.0
Jun 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Private company, no shareholders pressure, high compensation, reasonable growth opportunities.

Cons

Lesser interaction with management, not a really good culture

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