Good perks, but YMMV - Senior Software Develop Bloomberg Employee Review

3.0
Jan 31, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Perks, benefits, salary are competitive. No titles, everyone really can contribute if they're willing to fight for it. Often you can learn new technologies. Plenty of friendly people to have lunch with. Management doesn't really seem to care too much about system outages so that makes for a more relaxed work environment (half sarcastic).

Cons

Constantly having my desk/office moved, forced "upgrades" or work environment changes. Not a lot of personal space or even toilets for that matter. Extremely crowded office despite how fancy and pleasant it is to look at. A lot of distractions and in my opinion the quality of work across the company suffers because of it. Employee retention is not that great, and it's also hard to hire talent here anymore as they mostly go to FAANG or startups. A lot of office politics, and no clear vision or culture for the company. Incompetent managers get off easy and some of the worst ones are allowed to remain for years even after they've driven away many good engineers. Sometimes it feels very competitive, especially between different teams who are often working on similar things and for no good reason other than politics or mismanagement. I rarely understand what my true job function is and why. Due to poor management choices and internal corruption, the company honestly hasn't grown its business significantly in a decade and has become decreasingly profitable and efficient in that time frame. Luckily Mr. Bloomberg doesn't usually punish low level employees for this as is so common in public companies.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great company, in this role you have the chance to learn about the financial markets, the terminal, and also you get client exposure.

Cons

Not really cons, culture is great.

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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