Does Bloomberg pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Bloomberg employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Bloomberg. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Bloomberg?

79% of Bloomberg employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Bloomberg 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Bloomberg?

Software Engineer (734) , Senior Software Engineer (445) , Account Manager (314) , Analyst (301) , Sales (175) , Intern (171) , Sales Representative (168) , Analytics (131) , Global Data Analyst (123) , Reporter (108) , Data Analyst (104) , Software Engineer(Internship) (103) , Financial Analyst (99) , Financial Software Developer (93) , Financial Sales and Analytics (92)

What are the pros of working at Bloomberg according to real employee reviews?

"The people are great and they provide dozens of opportunities to get to know the company more." ((in 773 reviews)); "Great culture and a clear vision on how to be a highly successful private company." ((in 695 reviews)); "Good work life balance: 8am to 6pm and you are done at 6pm most of the times" ((in 524 reviews)); "Pay is good and raises very nice." ((in 374 reviews)); "Free medical/dental and free food (snacks and drinks)." ((in 329 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Bloomberg according to real employee reviews?

"Micro management and under skilled TL" ((in 414 reviews)); "A bad manager can do what he likes and the company will cover him irrespective of your complaints." ((in 294 reviews)); "long hours (contracted hours are at least 25% more than industry average) with no flexibility." ((in 227 reviews)); "Absolute micromanagement and no career progression whatsoever." ((in 110 reviews)); "Strict, Late Working Hours, Sometimes hard to reach" ((in 105 reviews))

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Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Bloomberg layoffs and their outlook for job security at Bloomberg in 2026.

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Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,238 total reviews)

Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

85% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.3

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

4.0

Culture & values

4.0

Compensation and benefits

3.7

Career opportunities

3.4

Senior management

Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,238 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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Reviews by job title

8K reviews

4.0

Sep 12, 2010

Decent company to work for

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Compensation and benefits are reasonable if not the best in the industry Growth opportunities Good benefits such as vacation days, medical insurance, etc

Cons

Everything is high priority Compensation can be better

2.0

Sep 11, 2010

Good play, horrible company

Systems engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay. Interesting Technologies, the company does spend good money on tech, and get the latest and greatest. Some good people are still there

Cons

They treat employees like babies. Micromanagement at it's worst. Forget about working from home ( although they say they allow it ). Very little transparency, things just happen without prior knowledge,

2.0

Sep 11, 2010

OK for a while, boring in the long run

Software developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Non work related: the pay is pretty good, the building is fancy, they have free drinks + snacks. There are a lot of outside of work activities that are not only offered but also strongly encouraged, such as donations, food/backpack drives, gardening, etc. Also, there are lots of free tickets given out to cool events in the city that you would otherwise never have access to. Work related: you get to work on projects that affect a lot of people, and depending which group you land into you may love the work you do. The management is less "flat" than what I was told it was like when I joined (early 2009), but there are definitely fewer hierarchical barriers than at most other places.

Cons

Bloomberg has tons and tons of legacy code, mostly in Fortran and C, and to add insult to injury, it's rarely commented/documented/explained in any shape or form -- when you make a function call, you often enter magic land. While there are no new Fortran files (company policy), you will almost certainly have to at least look at lots of Fortran in debugging it, and you may need to make code additions for bug fixes. Bloomberg is a fast paced company (due to it being driven by Finance), but this means that you focus on getting the final product done ASAP -- which can be exciting -- but rarely will you get the chance to take time and properly design and develop a product, or refactor old code that, while not technically broken, is inefficient.

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