Bloomberg reviews

Technology can be very stale. A lot of teams are stuck in the mud with no clear path to escaping their tech debt. The training class is a drag. A lot of employees feel like they've checked out and don't have much interest in learning new things so it can be difficult to move things along.

- Very pushy culture and micro managing, managers are so busy they read all your chat to see if you mention their name, then pretend they haven't read it and get their petty revenge. - Excellence is not rewarded, they don't want you to have great knowledge, they just want you to be easily replaceable, therefore statistics and kpi are geared toward quantity, not quality. - Middle management is some of the worst I have seen, they just promote the Bloomberg robots, the over achievers that know well enough they couldn't even get a job as a cashier at Tesco, wondering why they got in in the first place. Therefore the way they manage is just to pretend they're always busy and would shot down anyone with constructive feedback. - Big Brother, you are consistently monitored, camera above you hear, they always know what floor you are badged in, it shows on your internal profile pic, chats at being monitored. Everybody is paranoid, you know things are messed up when the managed always make sure the mute button is on in meeting room, like they know it's being monitored as well. - Evaluation are completely useless, they basically rank you 4 months before the EOY, anything you do in between is completely useless, they will just make up the rating on the way. - It's a big corporation that pretends it is still a startup, therefore the way things are done is completely messed up. - They never consult people when they come up with new process, decisions are made by people who haven't talked to clients for years, they will just say, hey we are trying this new procedure, let us know your feedback, it doesn't matter if feedback is horrible, they will still go ahead and implement it. - Managers will always try to come up with new ideas so they can boast about it in their EOY evaluation, so expect to get a lot of nonsense projects before evaluation period. - Political correctness is insane, you get spammed with emails about LGBT community and women in finance event, even though more than half of middle management is filled with them. If you are in one of these groups you are basically not going to get fired. I remember a girl who was the worst employee I saw in my career, she managed to get away for more than a year, while a guy who was ten times better got the sack after a couple months. - They don't care about their employees, all they want is you to work hard, don't work smart please, just do numbers with the minimum quality. Even the chairman said he would rather have dumb people who work hard than smart people, if you want a coffee break go work for Google, like wtf... - They will never say you did a good job, they will always point at stuff you did wrong six months ago and remind you every time you do something good, yeah but last time you sent an email and made a typo, duh. - They never fire people, this is the biggest BS I've seen, they don't do it so they don't get sued, instead what they do is harass you to the point where you quit, I've seen so many people leave but knew very well management were after them. - Stingy, they will try to squizz as much out of you as they can, then give you the lowest raise they can get away with. The rule is to ask you to do 15 things, knowing well enough you only have time to do ten, so when comes time to evaluate you they have the ammo to bash you. - Creativity is banned, if you come up with new ideas they will just keep on ignoring it, and just take what makes management look good. - Company is screwed, they won't be able to maintain the same sales growth, they don't listen to clients and just come up with gimmick and shinny product that don't really answer the client needs, expect some restructuring in the coming years.