Bloomberg Analytics and Sales Programmer reviews

3.8

79% would recommend to a friend

(131 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

80% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Analytics & Sales Programmer employees have rated Bloomberg with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 131 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Analytics & Sales Programmer professionals have a good working experience there. Bloomberg is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Analytics & Sales Programmer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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131 reviews
2.0
Mar 16, 2017

Analytics

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Pros

Defined Working hours - your shifts are defined, typically leave at 5pm or end of shift unless you're stuck in a chat. Great benefits Comprehensive Training - Bloomberg offers training to do every aspect of the job, regardless if you have a finance background.

Cons

Overloaded - each employee is expected to assist 3-5 clients at the same time. Each client different questions , anger level and skill sets. Once you gain more knowledge the chat difficultly increases. Department has a "if you're not overwhelmed you're not working" philosophy Over quantification: the department has pushed for a quantifiable metric in every possible area, discounting any intangible skills you add. Each employee is viewed as comparable across so many different roles within the dept, when in some cases the comparison is not valid. During review time management can cherry pick uncharming stats, that often do not explain the full credit of your work, to justify mediocre raises. Micromanagement - middle managers overly scrutinize work, to show their effectiveness as "leaders". Every aspect of your day is assigned, down to the min, by your team leader, the ability to work on your own scheduled prohibited, feeling as if you're being baby sat.

2.0
Jan 10, 2014

Analytics, dead-end

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Pros

- Great training - Good use of terminal (for free!) - Good work/life balance - Good benefits - Decent compensation

Cons

- Poor upper management (really poor) - Immature work environment, lots of "contests", breeds children, not adults - Above results in no pride in job, and thus very low morale (counterproductive, backfires) - Quality of hires is very low to prevent "flight-cases" (word used by management) - Management evaluates not relative to peers, but relative to your own past performance (makes no sense: if you are better than your peers, but you are not as good as you were last year, your compensation will be impacted negatively) - No room for growth within department, lots of red tape to get promoted - Tendency to hire externally for jobs that would be better done by internal employees (ie, product managers are all external hires, but that leads to very one-dimensional product enhancements that only serve what that person wanted in their past role, they do this instead of letting sales/analytics into the role despite the interaction those departments have with clients of a broad spectrum on a daily basis) - Another reviewer put this best: There are a lot of parasites that have been grandfathered in. They have been in the company during it's largest growth periods and have very minor skillsets. They just rotate every 2 years into high paying fluff roles that don't add much value. For example, we have a "training content management team" that consists of 10+ year veterans. All they do is book rooms for trainings and schedule them. There are at least 4 per region. - Inefficient use of funds: We splurge on very odd things such as people walking around on the 6th floor with trays to hand out snacks (essentially servants). We also book all of our re This was a bit detailed.

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