Bloomberg reviews

Bloomberg is very, very "cliequey" if thats a word. They pride themselves on their FST bootcamp and you'll quickly learn that most of your senior colleagues have grown up within the company with the same people they did the bootcamp with. Additionally, note the power dynamics of people on the US work visa. Many of them need to bite their tongue for years while they wait for a green card. Managers get used to quiet people and kinda of freak out, once a rare disagreable employee tells them "no". tl;dr You'll need to play careful political game if you enter Bbg as a senior tech hire to succeed. Tech stack is home grown and kind of peculiar. But the chill pace of the company makes up for it.

Every decision is made at management committee level (mike and vlad) which means business are not empowered to make decisions they need at the local level and a lot of pertinent issues get lost along the way in the food chain. Some areas don't get any invested into even though they do really well and this can be frustrating. The architecture is old, lots of tech debt, slow movement in getting anything done generally. Engineering runs the place if you're in product. They don't get locked into jobs at all, can leave to a different department as soon as 2 weeks upon arrival. They start at 10 am everywhere and their choke hold over the agenda can be stifling. Some pockets of sales are really bad, they get a bit complacent and in areas they have locked in terrible people into sweet deals who seem to not get challenged.