Bloomberg Software Developer reviews

Bloomberg is a great company if your manager is supportive and you like working in a communal environment.

-Only need to work 8 hours a day -Company has enough resources to allow developers to experiment. In over 30 years of operation, never had a year of negative growth, so there is no sink-or-swim mandate -Training program for non-CS entry level hires is a great way to transition into software -Teams are small and functional-focused, so developers get a lot of code ownership. -Company grows fast, so there are opportunities to move up. This must be taken with a grain of salt, since there are thousands of developers at the company, but many of the team leads have only worked there for 3-4 years, sometimes less. -Jumping between groups is highly encouraged, so even if you don't want to manage people, you can always try something new. The process is well-defined, so no need to go behind your manager's back -Get to learn about the financial domain, which has a lot of interesting algorithmic, computational, mathematical and big-data problems