Pros: Good work-life balance and working opportunities.

Cons: Sometimes slow and old code. RTO 3 days a week.

Pros: Benefits are amazing, reputable, and basically dominates the financial data market. It participates in philanthropy actively.

Cons: Engineering quality is not good because it’s a data company. Lots of senior engineers are coasting.

Pros: Good training program, free food. Good opportunity to make contacts. The male-female ratio is pretty good (on the female side). The summer party is outstanding.

Cons: Very, very inexperienced managers, the majority of whom have only ever worked at Bloomberg. This cripples diversity. There's a bully-type American management style, like something straight out of a textbook. If a task isn't done now, the response is to shout louder or swear. Forget trying to understand the problem; just expect staff to work ridiculously long hours. From the software engineering side, work is rushed and the technology is old. Bloomberg thinks it can do things better by building its own in-house compilers and dev environments. It can't, period. Switch to mainstream/open-source software, which is peer-reviewed by thousands of skilled developers.