Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,273 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 8,273 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Oct 2, 2012

Satisfied comparing to previous experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

20 vacation day! Very good medical insurance. Access to finance information.

Cons

Has to deal with very old software, but thing become better and better.

4.0
Oct 1, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Pay is good. Business is slowing down now but even during the financial crisis I got pretty good pay and bonuses. A lot of my coworkers quit and work for Google and they're getting less vacation and about the same salary. * Good benefits. Four weeks vacation, good medical and dental insurance (used to be free but now it's $400 a year or so) and other perks like free entrance to of museums and occasional tickets to high-society type events through the company's philanthropy * Nice office in a nice location, with beautiful tropical fish and free snacks.

Cons

* The technologies they are using are outdated and mostly proprietary. You can become an expert in those technologies and it will make you more valuable to Bloomberg but not to anyone else. Perhaps not if you work in a few groups (mobile, bloomberg.com, bloomberg government) which use mainstream technologies, but the vast majority of programmers are working on the Bloomberg Terminal which doesn't really use any modern, marketable technology. * Good job security has a price: there are a lot of really bad programmers who break things or never get any work done, and they never get fired. Depending on your team you could work with smart people but you might also work with a lot of dumb people. * Hours can be long and you're pretty much expected to be on-call 24/7, ready to log in and debug issues at 4am when the London market opens... it's a global business but most software teams are only in New York, and in some teams you can get woken up very frequently to fix overseas issues.

4.0
Sep 25, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good pay -4 Weeks of vacation -Free food in the pantry -Get to learn a lot and meet new people all the time -Reputation is a plus on the resume -Nice environment

Cons

-There's no title. It's a flat hierarchy so don't expect promotion.

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