Pros: Great work-life balance here.

Cons: Not as many perks as a traditional tech company.

Pros: Your experience will greatly differ depending on what team you join. The following only applies to my particular experience in a particular team. Company-wide: * Relaxed environment. * Free food. * Nice office. * Good benefits. * Paid volunteering opportunities. * Free/discounted tickets for cool events. * Good culture. * People are generally nice and there are many talented employees that you can talk to for advice/discussion. * Salary is slightly lower than other similar companies. Team specific: * Chance to experiment with new technologies. * Open to feedback/new ideas. * Decent workflow compared to many other teams, less legacy technologies. If you decide to join Bloomberg, do yourself a favour and choose a team that isn't stuck with development practices and technologies from 20 years ago.

Cons: Your experience will greatly differ depending on what team you join. The following only applies to my particular experience in a particular team. Company-wide: * Too many people are being hired without the required skillset. For example, many new developers with no previous C++ experience are trained on C++ for two weeks, then start writing production code. You can imagine the results. * Legacy technology, legacy infrastructure. This varies from team to team, but in general, every technology used here is quite old and a pain to work with. Want to use a library from GitHub? Good luck. Bloomberg has its own potentially-incompatible C++ Standard Library implementation. Want to use C++14? Nope, ancient compilers are used to support obsolete architectures. Team specific: * Most of the work is not engaging or interesting and revolves around the implementation of business logic with no real algorithmic or performance challenge at all. * You are encouraged to make the code "as simple as possible for new hires." Instead, hire people who know the language being used well. * Working from home is a perk of the company, but I find it very hard to do without feeling like my manager is upset about it. I wish this were encouraged and easier to schedule as long as people are doing their job. When I'm writing a component, I don't need to be in the office. Just let me do my work and come to the office when it's beneficial to everyone.

Pros: Takes 7-9 months to get fired here.

Cons: Would not work here. Not collaborative.