Bloomberg Financial Sales & Analytics Program reviews

3.1

55% would recommend to a friend

(119 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

58% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Financial Sales & Analytics Program employees have rated Bloomberg with 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 119 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Financial Sales & Analytics Program professionals have a good working experience there. Bloomberg is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Financial Sales & Analytics Program professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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119 reviews
1.0
Mar 3, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

1. Benefits (the well-known pantry, vacation days, dental, healthcare, may pay for your part-time degree) 2. 5 days work in Asia 3. Good springboard into the finance industry 4. Easily rewarded $ during economic good times 5. Leader among vendors *good exit opportunities and bargain power if you want to go to other vendors*

Cons

1. People who advance up the rank know only how to manage upwards. Hence, your direct boss might not actually care about helping you grow because she or he is busy making the big boss happy. 2. They reward those who talk big but can't produce anything. 3. Senior management pays little respect and attention to culture in Asia/China/Hong Kong. E.g. expecting employees to be out visiting clients when its Chinese New year. They are also not sensitive to political situation in China. Well, at least they tried to sound like they know what is going on. 4. In the States, bbg hours are 8-5. In HK, bbg hours are 8-6. That's 5 hours more a week-260 hrs more a year- easily 20 days more of work. So either they are paying Asian employees MUCH better (and that's no way true given the lower cost of living here *excuse of the company*), or this is just plain unfair (essence of the company culture)

4.0
Feb 18, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

They are good to their employees, provide plenty of training, opportunities and benefits are on the more generous side.

Cons

It's become big and clunky and very slow to react - not as fast and agile as it used to be. Management structure is very flat so progression is relative, mostly sideways. Promotions are not always based on merit, so you have very young, inexperienced lower/middle management who excel at their roles as "Yes" men/women.

3.0
Jan 10, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

I was an analytics representative at Bloomberg. Bloomberg spends a lot of time and money to train you on key fundamentals of finance, from equities, fixed income, fx/commodities, and economics. the amount I learned in the short amount of time was much more than I expected. Great place to get a knowledge base and learn a software widely used in the financial sector. Good place to go into sales, as well, but with the finance industry staggering, Bloomberg's sales are reflecting this negative turn (which affects bonuses)

Cons

Bloomberg has a great atmosphere with free food, cool office decor, expensive summer parties and occasionally free catered food in the office. Though this was great, and despite having excellent benefits and 401k package, the base salary was very average (for analytics). I think they try to convince you are getting a great deal with the environment that you forget there are other jobs out there that have a better pay package. The bonus is pretty small relative to other firms as well. It's a great place to get experience and learn about fundamental finance, however.

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