Good pay, fantastic benefits, but constant tumult - Anonymous employee Bloomberg Employee Review

3.0
May 22, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good pay and great benefits. You won't see better benefits in journalism. The health insurance is excellent, and you don't pay premiums. (Yeah, you read that right.) There's an on-site doctor, which is great time saver for minor ailments. There are a lot of amazing journalists, though the commitment to journalism has flagged in recent years.

Cons

The biggest problem is the constant restructuring in the newsroom. The commitment to good journalism seems to wax and wane, and there's a lot of people churning out low-value copy. It can be incredibly boring in those roles and they're not good about letting people change roles. The magazines have been gutted, and it's not clear that they'd be willing to stick it to big clients if a good story came along. The guy is a hairdo, and not respected much in the newsroom. It's disheartening that men are often paid more than women. There are some good internal people genuinely concerned about that and trying to improve it, though it's unclear how much pull they have.

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5.0
Jul 21, 2026
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Pros

great training, continuing education resources, and work life balance

Cons

difficult to assess level as mid-senior level engineer, lots of in-house technologies still used

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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