Bloomberg reviews

- HEARTBREAKING level of exit opps. Because any company with a bloomberg terminal has 24/7 helpdesk at their service, nobody needs to hire one. This reduces you to a Magikarp equivalent in the job market. Unless you aspire to go Reuters, WIND, FACTSET, CAPIQ etc, this place does not prepare you for anything else - NANO-management (monitors your lunch & break duration, projects, meetings, client conversations- you name it, they monitor it) - only nano-managerial roles available as 'career path' - 0 creativity required- just answer client questions correctly, suck up, maintain decent metrics and you're set to 'succeed'. - MORALE is low but EGO is sky high - AI bots will replace this role in future Certainly, if you look at this maturely, cultivating a customer-oriented mindset will form a solid foundation for future business endeavours. Bloomberg is also deeply integrated into the Fintech space through Bloomberg Beta and mike's personal acquisitions, giving you a clean picture of how technology is integrated into the regulatory, operational, data and financial market frameworks. Also, learning about the mechanisms behind a billion dollar private company (not many out there) is quite interesting. The job itself has its value BUT WITH THE AMOUNT OF SADNESS ALONGSIDE YOUR WORK, I SUGGEST YOU RUN A FEW PLANETS AWAY FROM BIG BROTHER.

Very little has changed since the company's founding in the early 1980's, including the senior managers and their 1980's Wall Street-era 'command and control' management style. Employees are required to badge in and badge out of the building, and the in and out times are displayed on the company-wide email system for everyone to see and judge. If you forget to enter an expense report or forget to your employee badge and require a temporary badge too many times in a month, your corporate email is turned off to "teach you a lesson". The company proudly maintains a 'flat' organizational structure and an 'entrepreneurial' culture. Unfortunately, in a company of 16,000+ employees, this translates to a chaotic work environment with little coordination across departments (and sometimes within departments!) and extremely limited opportunities for career progression. Senior management, who are about as white, straight, male and middle-aged/ elderly as you would expect from a company that straddles the infamously homogenous industries of technology and finance, have very little incentive to change anything or to promote people who don't look exactly like them.