Pros: Good pay. Prestigious name on the resume. Work here only for the name and short duration. Stepping stone for higher ground.

Cons: Really hectic culture. They will make you work long hours. Management will give you small projects to work on. Take your commitment on the projects and then throw a lot of bug fixes and maintenance requests in parallel. I have more than 10 years of professional experience, out of which most of the experience is non-Bloomberg. None of the places are as bad as this one. I wouldn't work here. These people are still using legacy technologies like: * Fortran * ProgressDB etc., which will make you not marketable. A lot of people I know were brought in, giving assurances that you will get the opportunity to work on a .net environment, which rarely happens. They would give you some projects in the beginning and bury you in maintenance requests. Management spent 70% of their time in meetings and will expect you to find out what, when, how, and why of a problem which you don't know anything about. They may pay you higher than market, but at the end of the day, you will end up billing 10 to 11 hours a day. I would rather consult and not take any benefits.

Pros: Learn a lot of stuff, not only in CS but also in Finance.

Cons: New techniques should be widely applied in the company.

Pros: Training is so helpful, and I gained a lot of knowledge in CS and finance. The pay is okay for a first job.

Cons: Old technologies and many old guys. Have to debug Fortran, even Pascal code sometimes. You will not be able to keep competitive if working in such a company.