Bloomberg reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(8,246 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 8,246 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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1.0
Aug 10, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is high for Tokyo market. Flexible work hours. Nice place to collect a pay check so long as you keep your head down, and don't plan on fixing anything. There is also a good volunteer program, and nice office events. Handful of strong engineers to work with and learn from.

Cons

Engineering department is in late-stage bozo explosion. Inept management with poor technical skills and zero desire to fix anything unless there is an obvious way it can be used to win points with upper management... and sometimes not even then. It's mostly risk aversion: better to leave a system broken than fix it and risk exposing other broken things. You get to watch/play the blame game whenever things break, or sit in meetings and come up with a good story that leaves the team/manager/org looking innocent. I think some people call this politics. No hope for decent management as anytime there is an opening, management promotes a technically deficient individual contributor that is unlikely to upstage them by doing any meaningful work. If you try to transfer to a less dysfunctional team, your transfer might get blocked by management with some really flimsy reason given for why you weren't selected for an opening on another team - this actually happened to someone recently. HR might listen to your complaints, but they will do absolutely nothing. In the worst case, if your complaint is about a manager, they will work with that manager to make it go away. One manager was reported for sexual harassment, with zero consequences, then the same manager started hiring more and more young women, using "diversity and inclusion" as an excuse. Am expecting that #METOO moment any day now..

1.0
Jun 23, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good social life, easy 8am - 6pm job with little challenge. Quite repetitive though and not really a suitable job for a high quality graduate.

Cons

The pay is an absolute joke. Don’t work too hard, as you will not be rewarded for it. Once I realised this, I spent a lot of time having afternoon naps and going for nice long walks in the afternoon instead of working and no-one had a clue.

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