Pros: Very good compensation, good health insurance plan, free snacks and soda, and breakfast.

Cons: 1. There's no career growth at all. There's too much political stuff in this company. I've seen many people who don't contribute more than others on the team but get promoted to team leader or manager, just because they have good personal relationships with their boss. 2. It's not very professional in terms of software development. Bloomberg hires a lot of non-professionals to do the software development. Many people never or seldom developed software before they joined this company. So, there's a lot of poor code waiting for you to maintain and fix.

Pros: 1. Great Benefits. Besides food and health, there are also many great educational opportunities. 2. Smart People. Most of the people working here are intelligent and a pleasure to work with.

Cons: 1. Career paths are almost non-existent, but senior management has been taking many steps over the last few months to fix this. It needs to be seen how this plays out over the next few months. 2. Work experience depends on the team you are in. Some of the teams are really great, but some of them are pretty bad too. 3. Politics. The internal politics can be really bad (again, some teams are better than others). 4. By and large, software practices range from poor to mediocre. There are a few teams that are an exception to this (the infrastructure teams are really great, but product teams tend to be far more "hack a fix, then worry about negative consequences later." The infrastructure team, OTOH, uses top-notch software engineering practices). 5. The company is a weird mix of transparent, yet opaque. There is a huge effort to appear transparent, but where most important decisions, even at the lowermost levels, are concerned, the decision-making process is very opaque.

Pros: New York City. Great pay and great benefits. Four weeks of vacation time. Exposure to more than just plain old software. Free food (somewhat). Some great people work there (as well as some not so great).

Cons: 4 weeks of vacation, but working 12 hours on one day and 7 hours on another isn't enough (8 and 8 works though). Not enough feedback from management. Business/sales people are often responsible for big decisions. They don't have any sense of what kind of resources a project will take. People working here for 10 years are doing the exact same thing as recent university graduates. The work environment sucks with just lines of desks and no vision/noise blocking devices; if you sit next to a manager, expect to have conversations/debates going on at all times. If you sit next to one of the projectors broadcasting announcements on the wall, expect to be distracted by flashing text every 5 minutes. Antiquated system architecture, and frequently broken development tools. Free food is good, but it's all chips, candy, and sodas, with few healthy options.