Bloomberg Financial Software Developer reviews

Company is very fast paced, so there's no time to think through the design. It is more important at the company to get the results out rather than have a solid design - ie. create a hack, a short-term band-aid solution that will fix the issue at hand and get the product out the door, even if the hack will create huge amount of problems down the road. Also junior programmer's bonus is not decided based on the person's performance, but rather divided from the left overs in the bonus pool after the management and the senior developers gets their share. (Each department get a dedicated bonus pool)

* Top heavy, team leads make all design and key product decisions, programmers are just code monkeys. * Internal job switch process is not transparent and honestly silly (teams looking to hire will insist on interviewing you inspite of you having worked with similar tech for 4+ years) * Some teams require you to come in at 9. Leave early will raise eyebrows, you are required to put in at least 10 hours, can easily go upto 12.