Pros: Good pay for new grads. Smart people.

Cons: not as technically organized or robust as FAANG. Very team dependent, culture is meh.

Pros: - Decent health benefits: normally $25 copay for PCP and $40 copay for specialist. - OK WFH reimbursement: $500 pre-tax money on your paycheck. - Decent 401k match up to about $7500, fully vested after 3 years though. - Decent work-life balance if you are not on a busy team. - Free access to Bloomberg terminal. - 50% reimbursement on wellness each year (Bloomberg will pay you at most $300). - Tuition reimbursement around $10K per year, subject to manager approval. - Free entry to many museums in NYC with Bloomberg badge. - Great team mobility if you want to switch teams. - Around 20 paid leave days and unlimited paid sick days. - OK green card policy (H1B + 1 year for new grads). - Free access to Bloomberg terminal and the news website. - Decent pantry but no real breakfast or lunch.

Cons: - Lots of legacy tech. Depending on the team, you need to code in Fortran and work on Solaris/AIX machines that VS Code does not even support. - Lots of internal tech which are not pleasant to use. Almost nothing related to the Bloomberg Terminal is modern. - Development workflow is extremely lagging for lots of teams. No CI/CD, no linting, no formatter, no Docker. Your service will run on a barebone VM instance. Be ready to spend lots of time on figuring out how to build and ship your code. - Most teams adopt the Scrum methodology, so expect daily stand-ups. Some teams have stand-ups two to three times a week. - Opaque performance evaluation and salary bumps. People say there is a magic formula to determine your salary increase. - Your badge in/out times show up on your profile and after your email address.

Pros: Easy to chill there and rest.

Cons: can get way too political