Bloomberg Senior Software Developer reviews

4.1

86% would recommend to a friend

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

86% approve of CEO

84% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Bloomberg with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 528 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Bloomberg is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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528 reviews
1.0
Dec 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is decent, the company offers nice benefits, the building is impressive and great to show off to others, free snacks are a great perk

Cons

Terrible place to work if you're interested in good software. If you're fortunate enough not to be working on Fortran or some really old crappy C code, you still have to put up with an infrastructure that is from the 90s, maintain some ugly patchwork code. Everything is run based on unreasonable demands from business folks who don't understand software and you are constantly writing band aid solutions and patching code. Your software engineering skills will suffer. Most of the management (on the tech side) doesn't know what it takes to be a good leader and is interested in hitting project deadlines dictated by the business at any cost without any regard for employee development. The only people who can be happy working there are people who started working there out of college, have only seen this culture, and are happy at being well compensated. You will not be happy if you've seen the world outside those glass walls. Do NOT go there as a senior engineer.

1.0
Dec 16, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly good pay and benefits, but it would have to be in NYC 4 weeks vacation Learning the Bloomberg terminal and APIs could help you find a good job someday

Cons

Awful code is the norm and nobody seems to care 17 inch monitors everybody is long on excuses for problems, short on solutions ridiculous cramped noisy work environment

2.0
Dec 3, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

There are some very smart and capable people that you can learn from. A lot of information is open and available if you know where to look. Snacks, summer parties, social events. Good benefits.

Cons

Hit or miss if you end up in a team with interesting work and a good manager - the exception rather than the rule. A lot of long-time employees with entrenched views make it a bit of a monoculture. Old technology and tools. A lot of busywork goes on.

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