Bloomberg reviews

You will learn quickly the micromanaged environment. It feels like it squeezes the life out of you on a daily basis. It came to a point where I dreaded having to walk in to office. Very poor management and guidance from them on the get go. Management would seem to always twist things in their favor and throw you under the bus. Extremely stressful and not enough resources to assist you when you are first learning the product. I am baffled that even the manager did not clearly understand the product. Requesting help from them would do more harm than good. I don't recall at any point of time where the manager was actually helpful. Another manager however was brilliant and knew the product very well and was personable and helpful. It doesn't make sense having two managers/team leaders where one barely knows anything, is not helpful , and throws you under the bus every time you ask a genuine question. Almost as if it hurts their ego because they know they don't understand, but they do everything in the book to twist and put it against you, it's laughable. I would strongly consider NOT applying or accepting this role unless you really need the money or have no other options. However, you will sacrifice your mental health greatly in exchange for that. It's not worth it and would be able to do much better elsewhere and with better pay. You are expected to conform, kiss up, and take whatever it is management gives you. Their ego's are very fragile, so it's important to do this if you want to survive. Remember, the objective here is to be obedient, don't ask questions, don't do anything against the status quo. This is not acceptable here. You must obey their system no matter what is served to you on that day.

- Horrible culture of micromanagement: your boss is always looking on the system what time you arrive in the morning, go out for lunch, leave the offices. You can't be there a single minute after 8AM or leave a single minute before 6PM. That's the case no matter how senior your job may be, with the exception of a few lucky ones that get a really nice manager, but then that gets changed very often as well; - Idea that "success needs to be painful": you're constantly asked to take courses and exams of the product in your own time (ie. evenings and weekends), they name & shame amongst management who passes and fails the exams; - Related to the above, you're also expected to travel for work very early in the morning (5-7am) and 6pm onwards so you can work the full day in the office and only then head to the airport, so again, using your own time for work; - If you work in Sales or Analytics, a good half (easily more) of your customers will be unhappy with Bloomberg (they only have it because in many areas they have a monopoly), so you'll be in a situation where your managers are pushing you every Monday morning in the Sales meeting to sell more but your customers will just be complaining about product bugs every time you see them - particularly if you look after any of the Enterprise products instead of the terminal; - Call centre culture: it doesn't matter what department you're in, can be Analytics, Sales, Finance, HR or anything - all your tasks are being tracked in a case management style system that tracks when you got a request (in HR to issue a salary letter, in IT to provide an employee a new laptop, in Analytics to answer a query from a client, etc), when you closed the request, how long it took, how that compares vs the avg time and number of requests that peers in your team processed and then, again, your manager randomly reviews your work and scores you; - Lots of politics: literally management has sometimes said in small forums that it's not about doing a good job but about your personal marketing. Mind you, this may be the case in lots of jobs, but Bloomberg takes it to the extreme, where it's about 70% about sending out emails and chats shouting about every little thing that you do, with only 30% being about actually doing things that deliver value. You won't progress your career unless you "play the game" Reach out to people on LinkedIn who both work there as well as HAVE WORKED there and ask them about the culture before you join.