Pros: The company is very developer driven. You quickly take ownership of systems and have heavy influence in their design. Compensation and benefits are impossible to beat. Biggest tech firm HQ'd in NYC. Way better than SF, in my opinion. The last few years, there's been a huge push towards open source technologies.

Cons: Working at any large company leads to quite a bit of office politics and bureaucracy.

Pros: Interesting work environment, good benefits, and good pay. Bloomberg is one of the bigger news and financial powerhouses in NY. If you need to build a resume, Bloomberg will do very well on your resume. If you have the right attitude and perseverance, you can move around and succeed at Bloomberg. However, mind the politics (see cons too). Also, for US standards, Bloomberg offers a generous vacation package (4 weeks), and they will be very loyal and generous to their employees (provided you don't "f" them over). If you have any personal issues or need time for personal reasons, they are very forthcoming and easy in making arrangements.

Cons: There are 2 potential downsides at Bloomberg that, if you are lucky and/or skilled enough, you should dearly avoid: 1. Inter-company and interdepartmental politics and power plays. 2. Bureaucracy. There are a number of managers who earned and built their little power empires in the last 2 decades and are clinging on to both their power and their old ways. Avoid these trolls of the 90s at all costs! While Bloomberg is very loyal to its employees, the downside is that these 'bad' managers and their little power tribes are not removed as they should be. They are parasites. If you are skilled and smart, you will learn how to avoid the bad manager vortex. The 2nd downside is the occasional suffocating bureaucracy. Annual planning and budgeting is not unlike a 3-month ongoing water-boarding experience that has killed many a great business idea. JUST SAY NO to any such bureaucracy! (Trust me, you'll be fine refusing to participate. Secretly, most management hates the process, and they'll silently approve your insubordination). Also, the snacks are really not that great. Yes, you get free sodas and coffee, but forget about the snacks; they are horrible.

Pros: A lot of money, all cash. If you're totally cool with the corporate life, you never have to leave. The company is insanely stable. You'll survive all market conditions.

Cons: Old tech is painful. Return-to-office sucks. Bureaucratic nonsense is real (even if they try to argue it's not). The office is new and modern, but kinda lifeless. 90% of the time, there's no food. When there is food, it's a bowl of soup, and people line up 100 feet waiting 5 minutes. It feels very depressing. The "values" just feel like a bunch of fluff to make everyone feel good and feel like they're doing a good thing. The Bloomberg Philanthropy is a lot about the PR. It all kinda feels dystopian. There's not enough room for everyone to get ahead (naturally, not their fault). To get ahead, you'd need to spend years (even if they say you don't need to) just because there are no positions available. And there will be others just as good as you who are qualified. The terminal is old and annoying. It's cool at first, but it gets old real fast. You never actually learn how to use the terminal like a finance guy. There's no real training/on-boarding to teach you the Bloomberg ecosystem (which is important).