Avoid Global Data as the plauge - Anonymous employee Bloomberg Employee Review

1.0
Jun 14, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

hmm....Friendly colleagues and 1 month notice period.

Cons

I have been working for this meat factory for 2 years now and if you like a sweatshop work environment this is the company for you. *Salary is crap and new hires get more paid than people who have stayed with the company for more than 3 years. *You will learn NO, i repeat, NO transferable skills, except knowing two or three functions on the terminal very well. *The work is repetitive and requires no intellect at all. A monkey with half of a brain would have no problem doing the "analysis" required for this type of work. *Evaluation is based on some stupid black box metric system which boils down to how much you suck up to management. Brown nosing is key. *There is no career progression whatsoever. I do not consider being promoted to team leader or rather admin leader as a career progression. *There are no words in the world that would describe how bad and appalling the management style is. Foxconn mangement is way better than BBG.

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Cons

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Cons

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