Pros: Working with extremely intelligent, kind, and dedicated people. Learning opportunities never cease in either financial or technical domains. Salary and benefits are unbelievable. The name is well-respected in the financial world. Very tolerant and patient with new developers. Offices throughout the world can make travel a lot of fun.

Cons: By virtue of being such a large company with thousands of developers, Bloomberg can't always offer interesting projects to everyone, so it takes a long time to make tangible impact on a product. Development is very slow because the developer tools are either nonexistent or impossible to use. There are many incomplete home-brew solutions. With that said, there has been a lot of effort to correct these issues and retain talent over the years. There is not a lot of interaction between the various divisions of the company.

Pros: Since the products that the teams develop are entirely client/customer based, you will be involved in the entire software development life cycle process. Teams are switching over to new technology (that's a very good sign). The entire company is transparent. You know what different teams are working on, and the developers are easy to approach.

Cons: Although the company has a great volunteering program, there are not many employee networking events. A better software rollout process is needed.

Pros: Not much, unless you have no place to go.

Cons: 1. R&D managers usually hate programming. 2. They do not like CS majors.