Bloomberg Financial Software Engineer reviews

4.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(103 total reviews)
avatar

Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

100% approve of CEO

96% positive business outlook

Financial Software Engineer employees have rated Bloomberg with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 103 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Financial Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Bloomberg is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Financial Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

103 reviews
4.0
Oct 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Lots of great training they really spare no expense in inviting some of the best people in software to come and train their employees -New graduates are given 11-14 weeks of software training, with emphasis on c/c++ and also Bloomberg proprietary technologies -Beautiful offices -Talented employees -Great employee benefits

Cons

-Still more of a financial company then a technology company despite trying very hard -The emphasis on rapid code deployment really can diminish the quality of code

2.0
Oct 2, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

For a developer: Good projects, great opportunity to learn UNIX/C/C++, some pretty smart folks and resources to draw upon.

Cons

Stuffy and arrogant culture, "big-brother" mentality, rude managers abound. Definitely not a good place to stay for long.

4.0
Sep 23, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This is the kind of place where you feel honored to be among the smart people working here. Lots of opportunity for advancement and to learn both formally and informally. Very cool perks like free admission into any museum you can think of, great company parties, etc. Having a TV studio in the building meant occasional celebrity sightings.

Cons

Long hours, usually worked until 8 pm and was too worn out to do anything after work. Senior Management would sometimes tell us that we need to stop working so hard, but it was just lip service. The culture and the project deadlines require constant long hours. You feel guilty leaving at 6pm. There seemed to be a lack of organization at the team lead and management levels which trickled down to the developers. The open work environment basically meant constant interruptions. It was hard to focus and get anything done until the end of the day when most people had gone home. On the other side of training is the unofficial requirement to spend time training new developers. Normally, when building a team this is a good thing, but in the 2 years I was there, I trained 5 temporary consultants. So, instead of building a team, all that training just went to completing their short term project, then they were gone.

Viewing 31 - 33 of 103 Reviews

Glassdoor has 10,139 Bloomberg reviews submitted anonymously by Bloomberg employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Bloomberg is right for you.