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      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (8,240 total reviews)
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      Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

      84% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,240 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      3.0
      Sep 27, 2017

      Not what it used to be - do not spend over 3 years here

      Senior account manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      * You will find with smart people on regular basis * Good exposure to the actual financial industry if you position yourself correctly - which is good if that is where you want to continue your career * Good networking opportunities * Good perks & benefits * Good place to start or finish your career

      Cons

      * Absurd micro-management * They promote a mobility culture, yet when you do move positions, peers hired from the street will always get more money than you do * Permanent negative stimulation (you're never good enough) * Often people who manage to look "busy" (pack agenda with mostly unnecessary calls and meetings) get higher up that the ones that actually do something but lack handwaving * Befriend management to increase your chances to be noticed (re. point above) * On top of the already long hours, you will almost always end up putting a number of extra hours, which are not paid * Consequently, your personal life ends up either seriously impacted or revolving around work * Talent retention has nosedived in recent years * Not necessarily a con, but new hires pay is now consistent with being a vendor, not the "banking" levels from years past. Expect an average vendor salary.

      2.0
      Feb 11, 2017

      Previous Full time software engineer

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good benefit High impact in the financial market Good gateway from CS to fin-tech & hedge fund. If you are a pure CS or engineering background and have great interest in finance, this is the right place to work. With a few years of experience here you can have access to almost all types of financial/quant/hedge fund developer roles. Good training classes for new grad students. Good immigration policy for non-US employees

      Cons

      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.

      4.0
      Nov 8, 2015

      Your experience will vary wildly with the team

      Financial software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Some of the newer teams are working on really cool stuff. If you get into one of these teams, you will have lots of fun. The culture is laidback; no one cares if you walk in at 11 am unlike some of the older teams where the manager will take you aside and lecture you if you come at 9:35 instead of 9:30. Don't join the older teams. You'll work on the same thing for your entire time, sometimes not even pushing any code to production for months on end, ending up in the project being cancelled. Some of these notorious teams are: Any of the "yellow key" groups such as Equities and Mortgages, some of the realtime teams such as BPIPE, Ticker Plant, Data License. The cool teams are Software Infrastructure, and some foundational application teams.

      Cons

      Lots of cliques, particularly in the older teams. Avoid the older teams.

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