Bloomberg reviews

Technically, seems sort of behind. Half the code base is Fortran. Bizarre restrictions on things like Boost. Low level C++ libraries are high quality, but higher level code is a mess. In many teams, you might spend hours each week just trying to get your code to link because all the libraries are changing underneath you all the time. The databases and GUI are bizarre proprietary stuff that are a pain to use and these skills are useless outside of Bloomberg. The email and proprietary issue tracking systems are terrible, with basic things like word wrapping not working reliably. If you like finance and high salary, you might look past these shortcomings.

I left before Mayor Bloomberg returned as CEO, but when I was there it was not easy to get promotions or raises. Everything money related happened at year end and unless you were very proactive with your manager and speaking openly about the raise you wanted or the bonus you wanted and backing it up with reasons why you werent getting it. Company is full of ""good old boys" who had been around since the really large growth days - they rose to their level of incompetence and are taking nice salaries - these are either FOM (friends of Mike) or close to it - to get anywhere good you need their help; very political. The job (analytics desk) can be a bit boring and stressful - when I began reps started general trouble shooting (is the issue technology or financial) and passed along to appropriate groups. Being the first wave for 6-9 months exposes you to demanding and sometimes verbally abusive clients (finance is an eat what you kill world and lots of our customers live and breath it)