Bloomberg Sr. Software Engineer reviews

There are 2 potential downsides at Bloomberg that (if you are lucky and/or skilled enough) you should dearly avoid: inter company and interdepartmental politics and power-plays, and bureaucracy. There are a number of managers who earned and build their little power empires in the last 2 decades, and who are clinging on to both their power and their old ways. Avoid these trolls of the 90s at all costs! While Bloomberg is very loyal to its employees, the downside is that these 'bad' managers and their little power tribes are not removed as they should be. THEY ARE PARASITES. If you are skilled and smart, you will learn how to avoid the bad manager vortex. The 2nd down is the occasional suffocating bureaucracy. Annual planning and budgeting is not unlike a 3 month ongoing water-boarding experience that has killed many a great business idea. JUST SAY NO to any such bureaucracy! (trust me, you';ll be fine refusing to participate, secretly most management HATES the process, and they'll silently will approve your insubordination) Also, the snacks are really not that great. Yes, you get free sodas and coffee, but forget about the snacks, they are horrible....

- Their product is bad - On the inside, their system is orders of magnitute worse than their mediocre product - They're overly political. For example, they set deadlines for major projects to be the department head's birthday. New features are decided at the whim of upper management, not because they would improve the product or have a chance at succeding. - All the good engineers leave as soon as they realize what shithole they've trapped themselves in. You have to work with college gradas who don't know any better and those too lazy and too scared to leave.