Bloomberg Senior Software Developer reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

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

86% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Bloomberg with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 525 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Bloomberg is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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525 reviews
1.0
Sep 18, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

$ - The money is good. The benefits are excellent. The perks are wonderful. The bonuses are large. The regular employees are awesome, and fun to work with.

Cons

Management is ineffective at best, and incompetent at worst. The entire company is very much a cult of personality. There is a massive "not invented here" complex. Managers that have risen through the ranks over the last few decades are very stodgy and outdated in their ideas about business and development best practices. I got negative performance reviews for mentoring others as the most senior developer on the team. Management did not understand the problem space at all - web development - and this made it very difficult to have non-stressful conversations with them. Some teams at Bloomberg are better than others, mine was generally recognized as the worst. The entire team went to senior management with complaints about the problems with out direct manager, but nothing was ever done.

4.0
Aug 11, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

I was lucky to hold SDE position in Infrastructure department of Blumberg R&D in NY office. Not much to complain about: a lot of smart experienced people, interesting technologies, challenging tasks. My management was OK with flexible work hours and working from home once in a whole. Compensation is relatively generous, and performance review is not very formalized: if your management feels like giving you a rise, they don't have to jump through a lot of hoops to justify it to their management.

Cons

Pace is crazy, release schedules are tough. Long hours are normal and expected, everyone in the company works like this. Software development process is not aligned across different teams, so you can get in a situation where you're assigned to a project grown up from a prototype with no infrastructure around it. One thing you'll run into immediately: a lot of legacy code, some times pretty old one. A bunch of old proprietary technologies are still in use, and you'll have to deal with it. Though the process of migration to newer technologies is slow by steady. Compensation is lower than in banks on Manhattan. If you quit your job not because of family reasons you'll not be hired back ever, keep in mind.

4.0
Aug 6, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Some very intelligent and interesting people to work with, fair meritocracy where good work is generally rewarded. Stocked Pantry and working in NYC.

Cons

Generally outdated technology, Fortran codebase was still widely used. Sometimes redundant work and projects. Very important which group you are in, will determine your overall happiness.

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