Bloomberg reviews

Everything is based on favoritism and not on competence nor qualifications. My manager was extremely unprofessional and always promoted people who she was friends with. Mainly several 20 year olds that took the effort to kiss some butt. Straight out of college kids that had no experience and became team leaders within as soon as three months and were managing senior employees with more exeprience and qualifications within the department. On top of that, the Head of the department seemed not to care about these circumstances as well. The whole structure of the company is a charade. I couldn't wait to get out of there, even though it took me two years to resign. Why I sateyed that long? I was hoping for things to change and improve. I didn't happen.

* The technologies they are using are outdated and mostly proprietary. You can become an expert in those technologies and it will make you more valuable to Bloomberg but not to anyone else. Perhaps not if you work in a few groups (mobile, bloomberg.com, bloomberg government) which use mainstream technologies, but the vast majority of programmers are working on the Bloomberg Terminal which doesn't really use any modern, marketable technology. * Good job security has a price: there are a lot of really bad programmers who break things or never get any work done, and they never get fired. Depending on your team you could work with smart people but you might also work with a lot of dumb people. * Hours can be long and you're pretty much expected to be on-call 24/7, ready to log in and debug issues at 4am when the London market opens... it's a global business but most software teams are only in New York, and in some teams you can get woken up very frequently to fix overseas issues.