Pros: - New London office is very nice. - Good management: My team lead, manager, manager^2, and manager^3 are all excellent. They're enthusiastic, know the product, and have programming backgrounds. I'm confident about the direction they're leading my team in and the work we're doing, and they're invested in cleaning up the tech debt created by previous management. They also know and care about the team, each of them knowing me, my skills, shortcomings, and desires. My team lead especially has pushed to give me opportunities to advance and have a greater positive impact at Bloomberg. - Good compensation.

Cons: - Legacy tech stack. We're working on cleaning this up, but in the area I work, there's a considerable amount of C and Fortran code. Most of it is quite nasty. C is converted to C++ when we touch it, and Fortran is 99% just being read to debug a problem and not modified. I have had to change it a few times though in the last 12 months. - Long hours. 8-6 are the contracted hours, but I work more like 8:30-6. My manager is explicitly not fussed about what time you arrive or leave, as long as you get your work done. I'd rather work 9-5, but I'm paid enough to live with it.

Pros: A high degree of personal ownership in projects means that if you're on a solid team, you can contribute almost immediately.

Cons: Serious issues with reinventing the wheel, neglecting useful open-source alternatives, and in many places completely ignoring proper software development practices like continuous integration, unit testing, integration testing, etc. Proprietary everything means your skills are largely not transferable.

Pros: The Bloomberg cafeteria, decor, and office are great. There are a lot of activities and events. People are great as well.

Cons: Old technology, salary are static.