Bloomberg Software Engineer reviews

I think BB is a wonderful company.

Not a good place if you are a tech person. This is a place that argument wins code. Good interpersonal skills are much more important than your code quality. As a developer, you will feel you are always the second-tier in the company and you have little control over the product but have to follow the business and sales. Few of the upper management has a tech background so that they do not know much about how to improve the efficient of the developers by improving the overall software infrastructure. Most of the developers works hard and they are generally smart but the overall productivity is quite low. One example is that we do reinvent the wheel a lot. One example is that for almost every teams that use Python they write their own python util module. Let's say their are 100 teams that use python and there could be 100 different version of parseTimeInput method in their own git repo. I have no idea why the whole company do not maintain only one general python lib that all team can use. In this place it is very hard to get rewarded or promoted by just doing a great job in coding. Communication and other inter-personal skills weight more than the tech skills. That is why there are more upper level managers have business and non-tech background in the development departments.