Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,262 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 8,262 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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1.0
Sep 11, 2020

Corporate Finance- cofi

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Pros

NOTHING, the job is awful and very misleading.

Cons

For anyone being contacted for a contract position at Bloomberg they will disguise this “Corporate Finance Analyst” or “Financial Analyst” as a fooking data entry position for its MODL project and it pays 14.00 an hour you will literally have a Quota to check different companies financial statements for spelling errors and to add positive and negatives to a companies Quarterly report. This job is awful and gives you no skills for the next step in your career and Bloomberg should be ashamed of themselves for even giving recent grads this position. UNLESS YOU ARE IN DIRE NEED A JOB PLEASE DONT TAKE THIS ONE. IF YOU DO ONCE YOU GET THE OFFER PLEASE START SEARCHING FOR ANOTHER OR YOU MIGHT GET TRAPPED

1.0
Aug 6, 2020
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Pros

Met some really intelligent people while I was there. Unfortunately management listened to very few of these people.

Cons

Reactive decision-making by management teams. Ego and pecking order make it hard for a younger person to provide insight. Lack of real mentorship from longer tenured senior analysts and overall lackluster analysis.

2.0
Jun 7, 2020

Where ambition goes to die

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Pros

- Free food in Skillman office - Generous healthcare plan - Excellent work life balance - Matching for donations to charity

Cons

If you have even an ounce of ambition in you, stay far away from Bloomberg Law (BLAW). If you work here, you'll have to deal with mediocre talent with irrationally large egos. At BLAW this means dealing with former "lawyers" whose only legal experience comprises of doc review work but who still think that their JDs from third tier law schools make them special snowflakes. The actual work is similar to the drudgery of doc review, and depending on the team you might be spending most of your day doing manual tagging of legal documents. This work is ripe for automation and offshoring, and requires minimal independent thought. You'll primarily be working with internal enterprise software (often with no documentation) that is not used outside of Bloomberg, and most of your job is about getting intimately familiar with this piece of software. Management is highly dysfunctional, with TLs and managers spending an inordinate amount of time gossiping about each other. The head of the department commands zero respect among peers/underlings, and seems to have been promoted to the position primarily on the basis of having been with BLAW for a long time. BLAW has become a laughing stock within Bloomberg, and people in the main Global Data office across the street (including the managers) often crack jokes about how BLAW is on the brink of imminent collapse. Turnover is extremely high. Employees with outside options often leave as soon as they realize that they've been hoodwinked by the false promises made to them during the interview process. Don't think about transferring to another role internally: management has been known to vindictively block transfers to other departments within Bloomberg. The promised benefits are also extremely hard to avail. The education benefit, for example, promises up to 12k a year on education related to any of Bloomberg LP's businesses according to the HR handbook. However, BLAW management will find reasons not to pay for courses because they are not directly related to BLAW, even if they relate to Bloomberg LP's wider business. Lastly, pay is abysmally low. It's not uncommon for people to literally double their salaries after leaving the company if they have in-demand skills. tl;dr: Don't work for BLAW if you have any ambition and/or outside options whatsoever.

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