Bloomberg reviews

Insane amounts of red tape when trying to implement anything new. Bureaucracy is overwhelming. Takes an hour to update small code changes and then weeks to move it to production. Too many cooks in the kitchen when trying to build things, so very little actually ever gets done. Toxic culture and politics in certain departments (have worked in several teams, some are better than others). Most managers are just ladder climbers who have stayed at the firm for 4+ years. Most have drank the proverbial kool-aid and ignore all blatant problems that might make them look bad. Company pretends to have a google-esque tech culture, but aside from the food and benefits, is extremely static and hierarchical. Bloomberg hires many very smart people fresh from college, but there is still super high turnover rate. Analyst roles are just glorified customer service, and tech roles are just duck taping and dealing with technical debt. Most of the actual talent leaves after a year or two to better tech companies or financial firms.

Worst Micromanagement , NOTHING is like they describe or sell the job like. There is a reason why every month a new class is starting - because after couple months people quit. it’s like a call center , a help center , every step and breathe you take is monitored on statistics. How often you leave your desk How often you take a break How often you run to the toilet How many tickets you solve within a day How many calls you make Nothing to do with the financial markets, your job is to help the clients how to use Bloomberg so they can trade properly .. meaning - they will come to you when their chat is glitching, where to find specific things, how to put data in excel etc pp. You will become a Bloomberg product yourself by that time. You’re so much under time pressure to solve as many client tickets as possible because the whole world is using Bloomberg to trade and everyone has questions on how to set up an alert or change the language etc. If you’re longer than a year there, 90% of the people start to accept their miserable life and get sucked into just answering questions day to day and get paid for it. If you’re not ambitious and don’t have big goals , don’t want to get into finance / banking then you probably will enjoy it.