Generous to employees, but requires being tethered to the terminal - Out Patient Surgery Scheduler Bloomberg Employee Review

4.0
Jan 17, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Better pay and benefits than any news organization I can think of. Can tap into a huge range of journalists who are excellent at what they do. Highly collaborative editorial culture. Internal movement encouraged.

Cons

Everything revolves around the Bloomberg terminal. Everything. Some beats require virtually constant monitoring of alerts and inbox, which can make it difficult to focus on longer-term projects without being constantly interrupted. Bloomberg cares about what Wall Street cares about, and little more. "Comfort the comfortable" and "make the rich richer" are phrases commonly dropped by employees about their roles, and they're only half-joking.

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5.0
Jul 21, 2026
Recommend
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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
Recommend
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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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