Bloomberg reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(8,246 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

84% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,246 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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2.0
Oct 6, 2020

Traumatic

Recommend
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Pros

Free food, not much work actually needs to be done, you just need to talk a lot and show presence. The only thing they care about is you doing the helpdesk. You can also volunteer, go to events and doing different stuff to waste your time at work. There are some learning opportunities.

Cons

If you are ambitious don’t go there. The job is absolute nonsense. The team leads and the managers are there because they are not capable of doing actual jobs, so they find themselves in “managing” and micromanaging. For example, my team leader once was checking how I am sending an email to someone (not client). This job completely shattered my mental heath and self worth, I was so unhappy. And no, the problem was not me, since I left I am doing fine and don’t hate my job that much at any times despite any difficulties that I may have. My advice to people who are stuck there and afraid to make a move: the earlier you do it the better for you. And no, free nuts are not a reason to keep a bad job. No one’s job should be as boring, annoying and self-humiliating.

2.0
Jul 23, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

1. Generous welfare and annual salary reviews. 2. Well looked upon by old school hiring managers when one is interviewing to leave Bloomberg. 3. Broad (Financial) industry coverage presents opportunities to learn, but unless you are in NY doing Engineering or Product Mgt, everywhere else is skin deep knowledge. 4. Plenty of biz travel opportunities if that ticks your boxes.

Cons

1. Tries to be a fin tech firm but is really one of the oldest school in thinking and culture. Examples include 8-6pm work hours, clocking in and out of office with a swipe card like a blue collar worker. 2. The company has too many layers of middle management, many of which are Bloomberg lifers content with executing instructions from top down, never questioning upwards. 3. Upper management’s idea of extracting value out of its talent pool is to dish out childish KPIs like “make sure you have at least X meetings/calls with clients a month”. They allow actors to play the game, stick in lots of meeting notes (often just basically a replica of say, an email) And voila that’s “high productivity”. If you were ever a client of Bloomberg and you wondered why you had 5 reps : 1 client ratio, this is why. It doesn’t take 5 reps to change a light bulb, but unfortunately their job depends on them all changing enough lightbulbs a month! 4. The fabric of the company is truly one like the “wolf of wall street”. “Sell sell sell!!!!” Is the mantra and culture. No real intent to solve issues for clients. Just a sale will do. The User-level terminal is a great product, but any enterprise level product is usually not well crafted because they are developed with a very short term ROI mindset.

1.0
Mar 24, 2020

Culture going downhill

Anonymous employee
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Pros

At the start of my time I loved the scrappy culture, they drive to succeed and fail fast.

Cons

Over time the culture eroded, toxic personalities crept in, the HR group is inefficient and unhelpful. Teams lack accountability, there is quite a bit of deadweight and the culture people knew and loved is gone. Employees are no longer valued.

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