Bloomberg reviews

I had one of the worst experiences ever at this job. Please do yourself a favor and read this carefully before considering this position at Bloomberg. This is NOT a finance job. You will be mostly learning about the terminal and don’t be fooled by the title “financial product analyst”, you will spend your entire day taking 3 chats to stop, you keep getting one after another. People will look at you weird when you get up to take a bathroom break. If you spend anything more than 10 minutes, you will need to message your manager. Most of the time you will be working past your lunch time because trust me, you will get stuck in chats and they won’t give your lunch time back. Managers are rude and you humiliate them at any chance. You will be taking 60-70 chats a day and they will read these chats, only to choose the one you didn’t reply to the client within 5 minutes - because most likely you will be stuck in 2 other complicated chats helping rude clients. They will mark you down for “product knowledge”, and your metrics will start to sink only so they can say that you are not performing well. Your mental health at this point is already going downhill. The department has a weird vibe, no one talks to each other, and even so, they require you to come to the office 5 days a week for your first 6 months, then 1 day a week remote, which will most likely end soon. You will start realizing how sad people look trying to keep it together and pretending that things are ok. They talk about “collaboration” and the truth is no one will help you. You’re on your own. They preach “unlimited sick days” but don’t be fooled. They will shame you if you need more than 3/ 4 days in a year. The company will fool you with snacks, and a pantry. They talk about diversity but you will see that most of the people they hire are white dudes fresh out of college. They do that so they can manipulate people who don’t have experience working elsewhere. Many people I knew there were on antidepressants. Leadership is toxic and trust me, they do not care about you. They will promise you can go to sales within 9 months, but I know people who have been there for 2+ years and management tells them the reason they are not going is because they are not “performing well”. You will start believing you are not good enough. Please reconsider thinking before taking this job. You won’t be improving any skills that you can apply elsewhere. You will be babysitting angry clients and teaching them how to behave. Sometimes you will be dealing with 3 chats and still have to call the client if they ask. You will be marked down if you don’t offer to call a client. You will be marked down for anything. They talk about transparency, but they will pick their favorites on the team, and give them a 10k raise, when others get nothing just because they are quieter, and don’t waste their time pretending they belong to that bubble. Your job will be troubleshooting things that NEVER work. The terminal is very laggy and most of the time the functions don’t work for clients you will be their customer service platform so they can take all the anger on you. People do go to the bathroom to cry! I have seen it multiple times. It’s so sad to see young adults with that stress level. Overall, this is not a finance job, you will be working at a help desk taking 3 chats at the same time with people yelling at you. No work-life balance. Run my friends, just run!

* stack ranking to evaluate employees, need to spend time to “build” story/profile of yourself amongst management to be liked. At the end of the day, it’s not only about the revenues you bring in * pretence of being compassionate, putting up a facade during covid, regular sending of items to home to “motivate” you to work - including food, diy plant, cookies, mooncakes, teabags, high tea set, cap * very powerful CRM to track your productivity, esp during covid, mgmt have to find ways to make sure you are not skiving. Need to write all the client engagements in categories of spoke, visit, demo of your client engagements. Came out with a ridiculous number of 160 during covid to track you. Procured all sorts of video conferencing tools, we have zoom, teams, Webex, Google meet, measure the duration of your client engagements * endless number of global townhalls during pandemic. Mgmt kept telling you how great of a job the whole firm is doing * middle mgmt who is not compassionate and just messenger, untactful way of mgmt. curt mgmt style by middle mgmt * boast mobility across offices. During covid, for the Singapore office, relocated at least 5 Indian Nationals and above to take up managerial positions which can otherwise be taken up by locals. Started with apac sales mgr (Indian National) who relocated from Hk to Singapore, and started to see a trend of sales mgr bringing in his own people to spread across various depts * big boss who kept changing his mind whether to run presidency, and ran in the end, spent loads of money on campaign (well his own money right - and where does his money come from you wonder?). Dropped out in the end, and supported Biden in endless campaign advertorials, while mgmt within the company kept pushing own guys to keep bringing in revenue, burnt so much money during presidency campaign * rigid way of running the business, small deals are peanuts in mgmt’s eyes (don’t ever believe them when they say a save of removal terminal is as good as a sale)