Bloomberg Sr. Software Engineer reviews

4.1

87% would recommend to a friend

(537 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

86% approve of CEO

85% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Bloomberg with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 537 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Bloomberg is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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537 reviews
5.0
Dec 7, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Bloomberg isn't really a finance company - it's a technology company whose primary clients happen to be in the financial sector. As such it is the equivalent of Google or Facebook in its world. For the software developer, it offers a chance to work on a large scale, distributed system used by 300,000+ premium clients to help them make decisions within the financial markets. This means solving problems of scalability and robustness on a scale which relatively few other companies other than the ones already mentioned may have to deal with. The work environment is friendly and open, and the company is constantly working to refresh its technologies in order to advance its products.

Cons

Bloomberg has vast amounts of code in its system -- and some of it is really old (Fortran 77 from the eighties or nineties). Having to work with or around some of this code may put off some developers.

4.0
Nov 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

fancy office, food, beautiful fish tanks. great summer party. Sometimes you can work on interesting projects. For junior software engineer, this is a great place to start a career and great opportunity to learn.

Cons

career path is a problem. If is hard to advance, and you may wind up doing same stuff several years ago.

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