Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,231 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

85% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,231 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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2.0
Feb 3, 2020
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Pros

The best thing and most grateful is to start within a class of 20+ people and together go through the same bad experience. Becoming stronger together and helping each other every day

Cons

Worst Micromanagement , NOTHING is like they describe or sell the job like. There is a reason why every month a new class is starting - because after couple months people quit. it’s like a call center , a help center , every step and breathe you take is monitored on statistics. How often you leave your desk How often you take a break How often you run to the toilet How many tickets you solve within a day How many calls you make Nothing to do with the financial markets, your job is to help the clients how to use Bloomberg so they can trade properly .. meaning - they will come to you when their chat is glitching, where to find specific things, how to put data in excel etc pp. You will become a Bloomberg product yourself by that time. You’re so much under time pressure to solve as many client tickets as possible because the whole world is using Bloomberg to trade and everyone has questions on how to set up an alert or change the language etc. If you’re longer than a year there, 90% of the people start to accept their miserable life and get sucked into just answering questions day to day and get paid for it. If you’re not ambitious and don’t have big goals , don’t want to get into finance / banking then you probably will enjoy it.

2.0
Nov 7, 2019
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Pros

Competitive pay (although they're whittling it down fast), decent health care, 401(k), free snacks and coffee.

Cons

What little journalistic talent remains at Bloomberg News is no match for the mass of mediocrity that has risen up there. In the past five years, the standard of quality has gone from excruciatingly high to preposterously low. While political correctness and identity politics run rampant, gender discrimination is still quite prevalent, despite all the internal corporate propaganda stating otherwise. And nobody, man nor woman, should feel comfortable growing old there. Experience has become a liability as the company is clearly focused on lowering the average age (and salary) of non-management employees through attrition, targeted layoffs and firings. You shouldn’t consider Bloomberg News as a mid-career journalist. If you’re age 40 or older, don’t even bother applying. You probably won't even land an interview, let alone get hired. They have been actively recruiting minorities and LGBTQ people, though. So there might be some exceptions if you fit any of those categories. It does seem like a good fit for a kid just out of college looking to get some experience and then move on to something better. Sadly, it’s become that kind of place.

2.0
Aug 29, 2019
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Pros

Learning experience in FIX protocol

Cons

Disfunctional management playing favorites. They give you good feedback throughout the year and in your year-end review you're no good for almost anything. Upper management is completely oblivious about what happens to their hard working representatives.

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