Pros
1. Generous welfare and annual salary reviews. 2. Well looked upon by old school hiring managers when one is interviewing to leave Bloomberg. 3. Broad (Financial) industry coverage presents opportunities to learn, but unless you are in NY doing Engineering or Product Mgt, everywhere else is skin deep knowledge. 4. Plenty of biz travel opportunities if that ticks your boxes.
Cons
1. Tries to be a fin tech firm but is really one of the oldest school in thinking and culture. Examples include 8-6pm work hours, clocking in and out of office with a swipe card like a blue collar worker. 2. The company has too many layers of middle management, many of which are Bloomberg lifers content with executing instructions from top down, never questioning upwards. 3. Upper management’s idea of extracting value out of its talent pool is to dish out childish KPIs like “make sure you have at least X meetings/calls with clients a month”. They allow actors to play the game, stick in lots of meeting notes (often just basically a replica of say, an email) And voila that’s “high productivity”. If you were ever a client of Bloomberg and you wondered why you had 5 reps : 1 client ratio, this is why. It doesn’t take 5 reps to change a light bulb, but unfortunately their job depends on them all changing enough lightbulbs a month! 4. The fabric of the company is truly one like the “wolf of wall street”. “Sell sell sell!!!!” Is the mantra and culture. No real intent to solve issues for clients. Just a sale will do. The User-level terminal is a great product, but any enterprise level product is usually not well crafted because they are developed with a very short term ROI mindset.