Pros
Free breakfast, lunch, snacks, soft drinks Full access to Bloomberg Terminal Beautiful offices in NYC, older building in Princeton NJ 50% 401K match. Full medical for self and family ( at a cost ) Summer parties at Randall island Well respected name " Bloomberg " around the world. Everyone knows this company. Bloomberg terminals at some airports. Ability if coordinated ahead of time, to check in to a desk in a different country if travelling. Nice promo toys Festive food served on special occasion
Cons
-Glorified prison environment. 3 ft wide desks, 6+ per row flat, open office plan, no privacy at all -Cameras everywhere, electronic check-in/out. Anyone can search your name, and know if you are in out, away from desk, or typing on your keypad. -At yearly review, you have to evaluate self + coworkers in your group reporting positives and negatives. Over period of time, everyone is a backstabber in your group, and you have no friends. -Keypad is monitored for performance. Every Bloomberg function requires <go> key to be clicked. The # of times clicked is recorded along with function specific to your area, analyzed at review. -If you stop clicking keypad, light next to your name, turns orange, informing manager you are not working. - 20 days vacation (which include your sick days ), good luck using it. Many days rolled, and lost. -Manger can run <FUNC> function. Thier screen now displays your screen They can see exactly what you are doing, surfing the web, writing emails to friends, whatever. - As of 2015, Employee's are required to surrender brokerage account balances, monitored by a third party, to make sure you are not using company data to trade during work hours or after hours. Accounts are checked to see you are not entering/exiting trades. -Pays less than most other similar jobs at other companies for both full time and contractors -Most manager and team leads are def not qualified or have supporting skillset to be managers. Many Team Leads, came straight from college and lack MBAs. They work way up. -^^^ This becomes a BIG problem. Managers are unable to forsee issue that may arise in future. They are useless at making critical decisions. It all catches up, suddenly you are working long hours, and logging in from home. - It becomes impossible to complete your yearly goals, and eventually at review time, all you do is provide an excuse why you couldnt meet your goals .... & no raise given. - TLs and Managers will pull you off projects immediately, then send you back 6 months later, expecting you to know where you left off, throw an impossible deadline, then blame you for missing completion date, Strikes are all collected at year end review. - Very unhealthy hi salt, sugar, carbs, sweets, sugar, candy, fructose, corn starch food served. I worked here for 10yrs and finally quit. I learnt alot, but the longer I stayed at this company, the more upsetting the policies made me feel. Its like a prison, the longer you stay, the more you fantasize about an escape.