Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,254 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 8,254 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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1.0
Feb 20, 2010
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Pros

I'm a senior software engineer at bloomberg and this review is my own + what I have heard from my colleagues and friends in other teams within this company. * Good compensation (only if you work 8 hrs a day which won't be the case.. normal working hours are 12 to 14 here) * Smart and intelligent people * 4 week paid vacation + medical benefit + free food

Cons

* You will be at your desk almost all the time.. normally ppl come at 9 and don't leave before 7. This is normal working day.. on special occasions you may have to stay even more and need to work on weekends. * They track every minute you spend in office .. we have something called PN notes and other tools to track time. You can't bill more then a day on a ticket.. if you do.. your manager yells at you. * There are no separate cubical so everybody can see everybody else.. and environment is little noisy so becomes hard to concentrate. * Managers are rude, don't respect team members.. good work won't get appreciation ever.. (and this is a culture.. this is not about specific manager). * Top management have completely failed in managing software capital.. lot of code duplications.. software pieces are scattered here and there and there is no track of it.. often you will be writing a module from scratch even though its available somewhere else. * interview process is tiresome.. they take 5-6 interviews and keep you on contracting for 1 month and that 1 month is a complete torture and then after their might be additional interview before the offer is extended !!!! TOO MUCH !!!

1.0
Dec 16, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly good pay and benefits, but it would have to be in NYC 4 weeks vacation Learning the Bloomberg terminal and APIs could help you find a good job someday

Cons

Awful code is the norm and nobody seems to care 17 inch monitors everybody is long on excuses for problems, short on solutions ridiculous cramped noisy work environment

2.0
Jun 13, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- smart colleagues and team leads - decent salary & compensation - lots of good technical practices like emphasis on code quality, issue tracking (but depends on the team vastly) - lots of good organizational practices like reimbursement for tuitions, on-site fitness coach, etc. - lots of interactions with business & other eng teams to grow your communication skills

Cons

It was very bureaucratic when it came to taking care of their employees. I applied for a course in a university with their tuition aid. However, when I left, the HR asked me to pay back the full amount since I left within a year. I understand that it was in the policy, but the course was directly related to our work and I did apply what I have learned. It was also not like I left immediately after the course (> 8 months). I felt they could have been more generous to their employees. There were also numerous other cases like they declined my WFH requests when I needed to go back to my country and vote. I also think the tech stack they used is very outdated. Their frameworks and tools (DBMS, deployment tool, etc.) were almost all proprietary. I did not notice how undesirable my skillset was, until I returned to the job market. I would not recommend any engineer who values their career path to stay there for very long.

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