Bloomberg reviews

- I believe the unusual combination of Bloomberg's private ownership and dominant market position have created a culture of nepotism, inefficiency and general poor management that persists across the firm but particularly in Analytics. - The nature of running a 24/7 Helpdesk means you do not have control over basic aspects of your working life (what time you have lunch, leaving work early, taking time off) - The core terminal business is currently in decline and business is tough. This doesn't make for a happy salesforce or happy clients. Management have persisted with high sales targets that, when not hit, cause pay to stagnant and bonuses to be cut. - What is not made clear at interview is that you now spend 2-3 years on the Helpdesk before moving to sales/other areas. Even when people are ready to move on their careers are held back. - Too many people get enticed to work at Bloomberg on the snacks in the pantry and cool office design- don't! The novelty wears off after a month. Base your decision on more substantial factors. - Do not think you can use this role as a stepping-stone into a front office finance role. People generally go to the middle/back office or FinTech startups.

Terrible place to work if you're interested in good software. If you're fortunate enough not to be working on Fortran or some really old crappy C code, you still have to put up with an infrastructure that is from the 90s, maintain some ugly patchwork code. Everything is run based on unreasonable demands from business folks who don't understand software and you are constantly writing band aid solutions and patching code. Your software engineering skills will suffer. Most of the management (on the tech side) doesn't know what it takes to be a good leader and is interested in hitting project deadlines dictated by the business at any cost without any regard for employee development. The only people who can be happy working there are people who started working there out of college, have only seen this culture, and are happy at being well compensated. You will not be happy if you've seen the world outside those glass walls. Do NOT go there as a senior engineer.