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: Good company, good benefits. Great platform infrastructure to work on.

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Pros: A 3-month training session basically teaches you everything you need in the company. Then a "reversed" career fair lets you choose the team you want to join. Two days of team shadowing will allow you to get in touch with potential future team members. Great work-life balance. Personally, it's always 9 to 5. Great benefits; medical insurance is awesome.

Cons: The codebase is old. C++ is not as popular at other companies. The code architecture is very complex and hard to understand. There are no official documents for internal tools.