Getting worse and worse - Senior Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

3.0
Jan 25, 2020
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Pros

Very good health benefits, free snacks, nice offices, global mobility .

Cons

They are hiring smart people and turning them to coding monkey. Before each software engineer had a chance to manage their own projects and came up with their own ideas to solve problems. Now, with all these agile idiotic practices, which do not fit the business, you do what you are told to do. New team leaders are doing nano-management. If you are smart, you are screwed. Also you will start of feel like you are working in India......

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