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4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,292 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 8,292 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Sep 20, 2012
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Pros

Good pay. Prestigious name on the resume. Work here only for the name and short duration. Stepping stone for higher ground.

Cons

Really hectic culture. They will make you work long hours. Management will give you small projects to work on. Take your commitment on the projects and then throw a lot of bug fixes and maintenance requests in parallel. I have more than 10 years of professional experience out of which most of the experience is non-Bloomberg. None of the places are as bad as this one. I wouldn't work here. These people are still using legacy technologies like: Fortran, ProgressDB etc which will make you not marketable. A lot of people I know were brought in giving assurances that you will get opportunity to work on .net environment which rarely happens. They would give you some projects in beginning and bury you in maintenance requests. Management spent 70% of their time in meeting and will expect you to find out what, when, how and why of a problem which you don't know anything about. They may pay you higher than market but at the end of the day, you will end up billing 10 to 11 hours a day. I would better consult and don't take any benefits.

2.0
Feb 4, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is decent when factoring in bonuses Benefits are better than most employers in the financial industry Work Life Balance is acceptable

Cons

Upper Management does not communicate to employees and often makes decisions "in the dark" that do not make sense Policy is not applied equally to all departments specifically work from home Management promotes from within based on politics and not abilities or knowledge Favoritism is common practice

2.0
Jan 29, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

If you feel the need to get a Big Name on your resume, like I did, you could hardly go wrong with this company. There is an army of smart people working here.

Cons

Unfortunately, the business has accumulated incredible of bagage around software development and the byzantine terminal always yields less information then you would expect. It's a small wonder that any development takes place using those archaic systems.

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