Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,274 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

84% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,274 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bloomberg employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jul 22, 2010

fine for 6 months, and then....

Anonymous employee
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Pros

the benefits, the snacks, the people, the hours (although they are long, at least you get home at a reasonable hour)

Cons

Most of the middle managers are not very bright and judge people based on their perceptions of them. People are judged strictly on the quantity of work they do as opposed to the quality. If for some reason, a manager does not like you, he/she can come up with bogus reasons to have you fired or make your life so difficult that you leave. The work is a whole new level of boring/mind-numbing. Backstabbing is HIGHLY encouraged. In fact, the quickest way to get a middle managers respect is to point out the flaws in your co-workers work. For all of their talk of transparency, there is absolutely nothing transparent about the operation.

1.0
Jun 19, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent pay and benefits. The free soda and snacks are nice and the annual summer party is a treat. You do get free admission and/or discounts to a lot of good places!

Cons

Noisy!! You not only write software, but you are expected to fully own all aspects of it. That means you configure it, deploy it, support it, etc. (24/7) You are expected to produce software very, very quickly, but are denegrated if it does not meet future (and unplanned) demand. Terrible management who have a strong tendency to micro-manage. A truly surprising amount of bureaucracy and politics. Only certain groups are expected to develop infrastructure, everyone else is supposed to just bang applications together. They do not use Boost!

2.0
Apr 13, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits plus some nice perks like an open Pantry, free admission to various museums, etc. Working a Bloomberg provides a broad exposure to the financial Industry, with a well run training program.

Cons

Massive legacy code base to deal with (great if you want to work on your Fortran skills...) NIH syndrome to the max -- you're not going to be learning any transferrable tech skills here either. Advancement within the organization is difficult. Rather weak vision from the business side. R&D seems to be taking a back burner to developing the news business.

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