Big organisation with an entrepreneurial mindset - Anonymous employee Bloomberg Employee Review

4.0
Jun 6, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Good take-home salary - Open door policy (no one has a room of his/her own) - all managers, team members are easy to approach - Out-of-the box solutions are encouraged and respected - Company does a yearly Summer Picnic (which is good fun if you have a family and kids) - The company has a lot of crebility in the financial circles so you get listened to - Recently made good progress on developing Career Paths (but its still very early) - Good philanthropy & community building efforts - Good training programs

Cons

- Although there is free food, a lot of it is junk - All new hires are treated as if they were fresh grads which is annoying for experienced professionals - Career path is still vague for more than 90% of the roles ... everyone usually ends up wanting to go into sales - Although the compensation is good, the increaments are really poor for certain groups, like data teams ... there is a clear divide between teams when it comes to increaments ... also there is no discussion about your increament, you either take it or shut up and take it - working hours are 10 hours a day - Employee Evaluations are archaic and sometimes dont even matter in your progress/compensation - Middle Managers are not very good, when it comes to distributing work loads, fighting for your compensations, etc ... although they deny it, there is a huge case of favorism with some managers

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Opportunities to do lots of work with data and finance to apply knowledge in both programming and Subject-Matter Expertise (SME). Excellent Work-Life Balance (WLB) and extremely welcoming culture. You can reach out to anyone for help or just to talk, and they will get back to you (although management does require more scheduling in advance). Generous compensation (good wage) and benefits, including housing for interns. If you heard the rumors that the Bloomberg Princeton office has a great Bloomberg Pantry (read: company-provided breakfast and lunch), the rumors are true.

Cons

Not the place for those looking for cutting-edge AI. The company is not as fast with AI as the company prioritizes reliability and accuracy above all, and much of AI is not at an acceptable threshold for management to be willing to take that risk with financial data (at least in 2026). You may get a project to automate menial processes, which is really cool, but that tends to involve actually doing the menial processes, which feels unproductive. Princeton office is good but New York is considered preferable. Coworkers are not very reachable outside of work hours. Compensation is low in Data compared to Software Engineers.

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