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4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,250 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 8,250 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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2.0
Mar 28, 2015

Toxic hostile work environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, beautiful building with lots of sun, free snacks.

Cons

Managers who have no idea what they are doing or how to show value in anything they do. Literally fabricating numbers out of thin air that make no sense. Ancient archaic systems that don't communicate with each other so lots of time consuming handwork rather than automation because the systems built are old and inefficient. Everything there causes you to work longer hours because its so inefficient. Everything is done via a ticketing system that actually stops people from communicating like human beings. Blatant favoritism is rampant. Male chauvinist piggy environment. Little minority representation in management. Ageism, many people let go all over 50. Tons of spin cycle because business leads don't know what they want. Badly written non approved briefs meant limited resources were spin cycling for nothing. They will tell you over and over that you suck and that you did this wrong, even if they guided you down the wrong path. They don't want to hear your solutions, they want to cling to their dysfunction like its a life line. Seriously limited resources so can barely get anything done. Nasty nasty sarcastic directors that have no idea how to talk to people and get the most out of them. Rule by fear not by respect. Microphones hanging from ceilings to listen on your conversations. God help you if you have critical thinking and speak up. You'll be knocked down, and the system will chew you up and remind you that resistance is futile. Extremely bad morale, everyone looks horrible because there is no life work balance. Everyone is scared as its a culture of fear so lots of bad behavior and throwing of people under the bus. Constantly changing the system and organization so nothing ever is given enough time to make it work. Changes are made with no notification, no outlines or workflow charts. Chaos ensues and time and resources are wasted.The metrics are a joke because the databases they pull the numbers from are poorly thought out so garbage in garbage out. Numbers are meaningless.

3.0
Jul 26, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is decent and 100% medical benefits for the entire family.

Cons

Lots of old legacy code to deal with and use of proprietary API. No privacy and no cubicles at all. Everything is an open area like a trader. Hard to concentrate when you hear and see everything. Too much politics.

1.0
May 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stability, prestige, it's a "nice" place to work. You get free snacks and coffee.

Cons

Endless streams of soul-destroyingly tedious work. Work that could easily be automated if the proprietary systems you'll have to rely on didn't... I guess the only way to say it is completely suck. Almost nothing you'll learn will apply in any other environment. The platforms and practices are so eclectic to Bloomberg that if you try and take them anywhere else, you're not going to know what you're doing. Things like career development, ideas like advancement simply don't exist there. You will be dumped into a massive pool of coders and basically just bang away at a keyboard until one day, you die. I weep for the torrents of inbound kids, fresh from school, looking to start a career and what they have in store for them. Bloomberg, the world is bigger than you. There are ways of doing things so foreign, so superior to yours that surely they appear to be some form of dark magic, and I understand your fear but if you push through it a little bit, you might be capable of amazing things. I quit, good luck.

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