Bloomberg Senior Software Develop reviews

Technologically in the stone age - hence once you are here for a while it is very hard to get another tech job outside as your skills deteriorate. . Absolutely no opportunities for growth. Management does not really care about growth of their employees - they just provide lip service with all the latest initiatives as they have to tackle the alarming attrition rate. Senior management is very old school and does not know how to run a 21st century knowledge shop. It is a very 1980's mafia style work culture. Loyalty and appearance of loyalty is prized above everything else. New York Times called it a 'digital white-collar sweatshop'. There is no thought given to software processes - it is a single minded focus to get stuff out to clients as fast as possible without regards to quality. As a result the product is a hotchpotch mix of applications which no one understands how to use. In their rush to get products out they have made some really bad software decisions which they have then spent man-decades correcting.

Bloomberg's motto is: Get Things Done. You should develop your application as fast as possible. Nobody asks you about design. Nobody asks you to write any documentation. Just get things done. As the result Bloomberg has tones of spontaneously designed and not documented code. Most likely you will be hired to support this code. You will have to fix bugs and improve code which should be redesigned 10 years ago. But nobody will let you redesign it. Just get things done and fix the bug as fast as possible. Every day you will get new tickets to fix. This is the way how you will learn your project. The only way you could understand what to do is to ask your mentor. You will be very lucky if your mentor be able to explain you what you should do. He just has no time because he has a lot of tickets too. Bloomberg is chaos. If you like chaos this place is just for you. BTW please ready book "Bloomberg by Bloomberg"