Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,210 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 8,210 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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1.0
Aug 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great salary for young talent, lots of training during your first few months, brilliant people at lower ranks. Also, if you learn to "play the game", you can avoid the stress and just take the pay!

Cons

There are three roles you carry out in this department: answering clients' questions, calling clients with updates on the software, calling clients to discuss how their needs can be better covered with the Bloomberg terminal. The first role is what takes up most of your time and is what causes most stress, but the others only add to the generally accepted term of "glorified call centre", where we work 9+ hours a day with only the breaks we allow ourselves, as the workload at no moment allows you time to breathe. Your schedule is fixed to the minute and your work is broken down to micro-movements that are monitored with a great variety of statistical measurements, imposed by a management evermore worried to show that they are adding value in some way. You do not rest and are not given time to carry out more value-adding activities during work hours, so do these after work, thus burning out after a few months. Your relationship with management can depend strongly on your performance in regards to your statistics, which do not reflect your efforts and passion to excel. And this can later have a negative impact on yearly salary increments.

1.0
Feb 21, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Health Benefits. Open and transparent office.

Cons

Singapore is run by a band of people who collude and dispose of people they do not like. HR does not exist at Bloomberg. There is no career opportunities. Morale is rock bottom due non existent leadership.

1.0
Jul 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

free snacks. company can apply for a green card for you, that's what most H2B VISA employees are here for. every year we have summer picnic in randall's island. The food quality in this one a year event is no where as good as google NYC office's food.

Cons

Be assured that you won't be doing anything advanced in terms of programming. They focus on pushing out the product ASAP. Now customers thinks, wow that's fast. Then, when something breaks(because of poor design, no unit test, they hire people who doesn't know how to write proper OOP code etc. etc.) then we apply quick hacky fix. Then client thinks, wow, what a customer service! This is basically why they're NOT changing, there's no business reason to change. If you are a good programmer, you will find better paying company and better environment to learn. Now they are having trouble hiring people, they even changed the policy regarding hiring past employees. (It used to be if you quit, you can never come back.) Also, it used to be that you have to pass 80% grade in their training class upon hiring, otherwise you get fired. Now.. there's no such thing, because they can't afford to lose more people. The standard has definitely gone down. I would definitely not recommend this company to my programmer friends. I know at least 5 people who are actively preparing for job interviews. These are the better programmers in R&D as well. I also know many people are there just waiting for the green card, once they get, it, they say they'll get out of here ASAP. I should not have chosen Bloomberg the first place, I regret it. Their HR response was the fastest among the companies I applied to, that was the only reason I chose it because it was the first offer I got. I rejected subsequent (at least better in terms of pay) offers from other companies all because I already accepted the offer from Bloomberg. Time you interviews right, don't make the same mistake! I only stayed as long as I have because my green card is almost here. I will quit the day I get it. Too many better opportunities out there. There's more to life than trivial DRQS's.

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