Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,270 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 8,270 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Feb 13, 2010
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Pros

The health and benefit package was very good (you don't pay for health insurance). The free food pantries was great but you gain alot of weight on it.

Cons

Politics & favoritism galore! Team leaders know how to get around the metrix/merit/ point system, so if are not a favorite (matter how hard you work), they know how to make it for you to always be below the target numbers! It does not matter how many times you change or "improve" metrix, team leaders can get around it and IT IS subjective!

2.0
Nov 21, 2009
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Pros

You will work with very smart people, several of which are on the C++ standards library committee. The free food is good. The 731 Lexington office's location is an easy commute from just about anywhere.

Cons

Development is panic or bugfix driven, so you won't get time to plan or improve. Have that development style for 30 years, and this is the root cause of the other cons: There is no project management to speak of. The build process is time consuming and not automated. The technology is old. You can download freely available libraries/tools that are better than what's mandated internally.

2.0
Oct 21, 2009
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Pros

acceptable compensation, which is the only reason why work at Bloomberg

Cons

outdated software technologies incompetent, inexperienced managers no cubes, no offices, no privacy, very crowded inflexible schedule typical 9-10 h stressful workdays

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