Bloomberg represents the apex of hypocritical corporate culture - Anonymous employee Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
Apr 20, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Can learn skills vital for corporate life such as how to be fake, hypocritical, political; nice office infrastructure; expensive annual summer party; good health benefits

Cons

Company is too political to be able to produce quality; the system makes people become mediocre as they need to focus on backstabbing, fighting for credit in order to survive; once you get in, pay increases are slow; everyone is stressed; some people need to work two time zones like Asia and Europe times; capable people leave as incapable people get promoted

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5.0
Apr 22, 2026
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Pros

Great culture, benefits, pay, and work-life balance

Cons

The technical challenges can be a bit stagnant. You learn to deal with people rather than systems

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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