Pros
If you can avoid to become an Advanced Specialist and have a European language you should be able to move outside Analytics in around a year. Things are much better in other departments....
Cons
Quality vs Quantity? Management purely care about quantity and generating numbers in any kind of fraudulent way possible. Recently I've noticed a marked increase in this trend as they have "clamped down" on the senior or advance specialist teams. This means two things. Firstly, treating the more seasoned employees (the survivors) like children and bringing in inexperienced Team Leaders whose sole competence in life is tracking KPIs and complaining when you won't help them cheat or fudge the numbers. The second point is you'll now spend more of your time pitching (cold calling and annoying Bloomberg clients) about new applications on the terminal, problem is they pick the most basic and pointless ones to make best use of your time here. I might add at this point the whole "advanced specialist" or senior analyst route is a shame with management pressuring new hires into these roles to grow this part of the department bringing people as a "qualified" senior in as short as six months after joining. Knowledge and experience however can't be generated in this period of time and consequently quality as been diluted, however quantity increases on paper so management are happy meeting their goals. Final note is turnover, our department is around 150-180 in London and at the moment we have on average one person resigning per week which is 29-35% turnover per year and extremely high. This is being dealt with at the moment by trying to hire more and more new hires (potentially you) to try and counter this. They are struggling to keep our headcount at these levels with more people than ever resigning, however surprisingly they are having difficulties finding enough people to put through their meat grinder....maybe one day they will realize their issue