Bloomberg reviews

Poor codebase and development tools creates a maintenance nightmare, you can find yourself spending more time firefighting and working around inefficient old code than creating new apps. Culture changed a few years ago to a 'metric' based system where you get rewarded more for ticking boxes and saying 'yes' to the right people further up the management chain (don't believe anyone who says the company has a flat structure - there are 8 levels above mine and this is typical). Coupled with their philosophy of mainly promoting eager to please, inexperienced graduates this has led to whole layers of incompetent mangement led by similar, more senior managers who have no industry or engineering experience other than at Bloomberg. The only way of improving your prospects is by enrolling in a 'leadership' course led by the very same people, few people are promoted based on ability. There is no distinction between project managers and those with the necessary people skills to manage groups. Pension is not particularly good. Used to be able to work from home occasionally but now this must be approved by senior managers, just one example of the atmosphere of mistrust which had led to a general atmosphere of low morale.

very very very inexperienced managers (majority have only ever worked at bloomberg so diversity is crippled), bully-type american management style (its like something straight out of a text book). if it doesnt get done now, then shout louder or swear, forget trying to understand the problem, just expect the staff to work ridiculous long hours. from the software engineering side, work is rushed and the technology is olding. bloomberg thinks it can do things better by building its own in-house compilers and dev environments. it cant - period! switch to mainstream/opensource software which is peer reviewed by thousands of skilled developers.