Does Bloomberg pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Bloomberg employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Bloomberg. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Bloomberg?

79% of Bloomberg employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Bloomberg 4.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Bloomberg?

Software Engineer (737) , Senior Software Engineer (446) , Account Manager (316) , Analyst (301) , Sales (175) , Intern (171) , Sales Representative (168) , Analytics (132) , Global Data Analyst (123) , Reporter (108) , Data Analyst (105) , Software Engineer(Internship) (103) , Financial Analyst (99) , Financial Software Developer (93) , Financial Sales and Analytics (92)

What are the pros of working at Bloomberg according to real employee reviews?

"Great benefits where you don't pay for health insurance and they do 50% 401k match" ((in 1049 reviews)); "The people are great and they provide dozens of opportunities to get to know the company more." ((in 786 reviews)); "Great culture and a clear vision on how to be a highly successful private company." ((in 713 reviews)); "Good work life balance: 8am to 6pm and you are done at 6pm most of the times" ((in 538 reviews)); "Pay is good and if you show up on time and write tidy programmers notes you'll never get fired." ((in 381 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Bloomberg according to real employee reviews?

"Micro management and competition pressure" ((in 411 reviews)); "A bad manager can do what he likes and the company will cover him irrespective of your complaints." ((in 278 reviews)); "long hours (contracted hours are at least 25% more than industry average) with no flexibility." ((in 238 reviews)); "There is no career progression for developers and this is by design." ((in 115 reviews)); "Strict, Late Working Hours, Sometimes hard to reach" ((in 104 reviews))

What are employees saying about Bloomberg layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Bloomberg layoffs and their outlook for job security at Bloomberg in 2026.

Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,258 total reviews)

Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

84% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

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Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,258 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bloomberg employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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8K reviews

1.0

May 2, 2011

Difficult experience do not wish this for anyone

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The benefits are the only thing that stands out at Bloomberg.

Cons

No life. Just work long hours.

1.0

Apr 20, 2010

Horrible place to work, Not a place for Tech Savvy Developers

Research & development manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Access to Bloomberg Terminal, fancy building (6th floor)

Cons

Fortran and C++ based technology Everything is proprietory including mails, timetracking and project management tool. Wasted god knows how much money to develop an internal IDE (sometime like eclipse, JBuilder) but horribly poor. Management resistance for change Experienced people from industry have lots of resistance internally to grow R&D is horribly aligned, many similar initiatives... Sub standard analytics for derivatives. People hang their batch all day, too much of badge monitoring I think only thing keeping this company afloat is 40 plus years of data, nothing else.

1.0

Apr 17, 2010

respect shown by management is very poor, they will insult you in every way and ridicule you

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Free chips and soda, if you work long hours and work for 1.5 persons man hours, you will get 10k bonus

Cons

They make you work 10 to 12 hours and pay only 8 hrs for consultants, crappy architecture, any one line of java code you change, you are using free jetty and it takes 30 minutes to builds the project.Why can;t they use websphere/RAD, which picks up hot deploymenyt automatically I wonder if the great mayor knows about this bad practises. Somebody should take action No balance between work life and personal life

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Difficult experience do not wish this for anyone

Horrible place to work, Not a place for Tech Savvy Developers

respect shown by management is very poor, they will insult you in every way and ridicule you

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