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: Bloomberg as a workplace has not had the best reputation in the past, but a lot of that has changed. It is a very open kind of place, which some people like and some do not.

Cons: A problem is that a lot of talented programmers leave because they are really not challenged there. As a quant, Bloomberg will not necessarily be the brightest star on your resume, regardless of famous quants that consult there.

Pros: Bloomberg is full of opportunities for people to learn about a variety of fields. The fact that Bloomberg's main business is finance allows you to learn about it, if you have an interest, which I found incredibly valuable. Also, given the many Bloomberg verticals, there are tons of opportunities for mobility within the company, which are also great learning opportunities.

Cons: Be sure to pick the right team. As in any big company, there are lots of good people, but there are also some teams which you want to avoid. Make sure to pick well.