Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,276 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 8,276 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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4.0
Jun 25, 2013

Good platform to kick start your career if you're fresh out of college

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Innovative culture with great company benefits and networking opportunities.

Cons

Big brother is always watching and people are always stepping over each other to climb the ladder. At the end of the day, this place functions like a high class sweat shop.

3.0
Jun 17, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-Work with latest technology -Opportunities to get MBA & Cisco/Juniper/Linux certifications -50% match on 401K -Good health & dental package -Since 2007 raises & bonuses have been a joke -Good company name to have on your resume -Good vacation days after 10 years

Cons

-Terminal sales dead last two years and bonuses & raises are below inflation. -Management more interested in hiring from outside rather than promoting from within -Any promotions are usually political, if you are friendly with Bloomberg or the COO. -Metrics flawed, judging talent on SDSK (ticket system) updates alone creates people who are good at updating their tickets - no one rewarded for going "above & beyond". -Lots of senior employees get transferred to an undesirable department (usually entry level like GTEC or GCUS) to get the senior employees to quit rather than fire them. -Newer employees (3 years experience) often chosen for management roles over senior employees (7-15 years). It seems like once the new guys get more chances than the established veterans. -It is very hard to advance in the company management unless someone likes you. The same people in middle management get rotated around to new roles and its hard to break in.

1.0
Jun 14, 2013

Avoid Global Data as the plauge

Anonymous employee
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Pros

hmm....Friendly colleagues and 1 month notice period.

Cons

I have been working for this meat factory for 2 years now and if you like a sweatshop work environment this is the company for you. *Salary is crap and new hires get more paid than people who have stayed with the company for more than 3 years. *You will learn NO, i repeat, NO transferable skills, except knowing two or three functions on the terminal very well. *The work is repetitive and requires no intellect at all. A monkey with half of a brain would have no problem doing the "analysis" required for this type of work. *Evaluation is based on some stupid black box metric system which boils down to how much you suck up to management. Brown nosing is key. *There is no career progression whatsoever. I do not consider being promoted to team leader or rather admin leader as a career progression. *There are no words in the world that would describe how bad and appalling the management style is. Foxconn mangement is way better than BBG.

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