Looks great from the outside looking in.... - Anonymous employee Bloomberg Employee Review

1.0
Oct 26, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free food, company pays for good benefits, exposure to some very smart employees

Cons

Management is horrible - my manager couldn't spell properly and I had to continually check and re-write his/her e-mails before they went out to others. I was even asked by other departments to not let him/her near them because he/she didn't know what they were talking about and made everything worse. Operating system was extremely archaic and instead of using technology that was already out there the company instead spent millions of dollars trying to make their own mediocre devices. Many "star" employees were hired because they were FOM - Friends of Mike - and were paid exorbitant salaries while dragging down the entire business. They would let go and outsource entire departments without any warning at all. Due to the use of only their operating system and their devices if you stay at the company for more than 2 years you are deemed unhireable by other companies because you have been "bloombergized"- you pretty much lose your entire skill set unless you go home after work and study...which is what I had to do before I left.

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5.0
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Pros

Great culture, benefits, pay, and work-life balance

Cons

The technical challenges can be a bit stagnant. You learn to deal with people rather than systems

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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