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
4.0
Sep 20, 2009
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Pros

New York City. Great pay, and great benefits. 4 weeks of vacation time. Exposure to more than just plain old software. Free food (somewhat). Some great people work there (as well as some not so great).

Cons

4 weeks of vacation, but working 12 hours on one day and 7 hours on another isn't enough (8 and 8 works though). Not enough feedback from management. Business/sales people are often responsible for big decisions. They don't have any sense of what kind of resources a project will take. People working here for 10 years are doing the exact same thing as recent university graduates. The work environment sucks with just lines of desks and no vision/noise blocking devices; if you sit next to a manager, expect to have conversations/debates going on at all times. If you sit next to one of the projectors broadcasting announcements on the wall, expect to be distracted by flashing text every 5 minutes. Antiquated system architecture, and frequently broken development tools. Free food is good, but it's all chips, candy, and sodas, with few healthy options.

2.0
Sep 19, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Snacks, good time off, no fixed ill days, good training program, no formals wear required like some other companies,inception of new technology.

Cons

bad management, dont even give you your own cubicle, overhyped company which tries to be glamourous on the outside, but void inside, old software, over worked people, low wage hikes, hostile to immigrants, biased performance reviews, over all a closed system where people either cover their a$$ or bully people around to get ahead. Some teams are innovative, however most are doing what they were for a long long time...overall unreasonable people...

1.0
Jun 21, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is extremely good -- twice what anybody else is offering.

Cons

Brutal hours. People die here from overwork. Be prepared to work 14 hour days and weekends. Utterly ossified management, micromanagement, downright harassment, brutally invasive oversight. Zero flexibility on rules, hours. Complete contempt for employees, no credit for ideas. Incredibly bad design, obsolete technology.

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