Pros: The generational company is one of the best success stories on Wall Street and probably in NYC over the past 30 years. A unique mix of finance and technology, it still does not seem to be having any kind of identity crisis, and is able to merge both worlds seamlessly. Technologically, it is not given enough credit for having built a client-server model before anyone else commercialized it. It homegrown numerous enterprise-level products like databases, telemetry, deployment systems, rollbacks, and tons of innovations. Genuinely cares about employees.

Cons: The personal trading policy is strict, considering 99.99% of employees have no access to any non-public information. The company is famous for its flat structure, but skip-level communication is lacking. Any escalation, including impersonal team-level constructive feedback, is sent back to the manager with not much anonymity. So, it's basically stifling and discouraging any skip-level positive feedback loop. Because there is a very tight lid on salaries and Bloomberg is a private company, there is random variance in salary across teams and groups.

Pros: Bloomberg seems to really care about its employees. The people are smart.

Cons: We're so far removed from SWE norms in the industry, sometimes it feels like reinventing the wheel.

Pros: Great health insurance, benefits matching, pay, and location. The work culture is very understanding.

Cons: Given the Bloomberg terminal is the main product and is so old, much of the development is centered around it, which means bad UI, etc. But other than that, it has a great tech stack. Also, job progression is ambiguous due to a lack of titled positions for promotions.