DO NOT accept ANALYST roles - all you do is data management - Analyst Bloomberg Employee Review

The pros sound amazing - they are - unfortunately the job is so bad that it does not make up for any of them: 1)deceitful job title to attract better talent - I applied for an analyst role and neither I or any of the people within global data do anything else than data management. - if you´re applying for New Energy Finance , some of those roles are actual analysts who get a chance to use their brains.- data management only involves the specific tools used at bloomberg and so you dont develop any transferable skills outside bloomberg. This is what we do every day: set up Bloomberg´s data tools to automatically collect data on a regular basis. Again and again and again and again. Oh, and create tickers for this points. The most exciting thing you might do after a year or so doing this horrendous job, could be to become responsible for maintaining specific data or data management tasks or admin or vendors. I´ve spoken with lots of colleagues and lots of people feel mislead by the company and/or strongly dislike their day to day. There is a general lack of interest in most people who have stayed here for years and then got comfortable 2) hours are 8am to 6pm - as written in contract and you´re allowed to work from home if you´re ill or if the plumber is coming to your house. 3) You get treated like a child -actually i might have had more space to do think and do for myself when I was 5. This goes not only for global data but for the entire company. you get told what to do, how to do it and when to do it. No space to do things differently or to do different things. 4) quite a high turnover of people 5) managers and team leaders have very little idea of how to do their job and if they do they are given very little space to do things differently 6) incredibly rigid 7) if you're in global data ... I repeat - you're locked up in a misery of tasks - there is no need to have any sort of education to do what we do. 8)if you're in analytics (the 2 years path to go onto sales)... well most people quit within 4 to 6 months of how bad it is. My suggestion: ask very specific questions of what you would be doing during the interview to find out if you actually want this job. It will look bad if you quit before 2 years and if you stay then what valuable skills did you earn during your time at bbg? I think you will have a hard time trying not to feel embarrassed if you were to tell the truth about what you did at bloomberg.