Pros: Nice people, really good work-life balance, nice perks.

Cons: They have more of a flat structure: SWE -> Senior SWE, and that's it.

Pros: Pay and benefits are very good. Job stability at Bloomberg is very good. The company encourages employees to volunteer with various charities.

Cons: The company insists that everybody comes to the office every day. Until recently, working from home was never allowed. Even now, it is highly discouraged by management. Software is hurried without good design and with little documentation. There is a lot of proprietary software, and after a few years, your expertise starts to decay. The open-plan seating arrangement does make communication between employees better, but the noise and interruptions make concentration impossible. The corporate culture, with its automated system of tickets, gives you the feeling of being constantly rushed to deliver. The overly complex and poorly organized software lowers productivity.

Pros: Good pay. New York. The financial knowledge involved in learning the product. The CFA's training classes are keeping the internship program afloat. A pantry, if you have never seen one.

Cons: This company is anything but Hogwarts, even when Hogwarts was being torn down. This company is Ron Weasley with a broken wand. The technology is so outdated, it's unbelievable that they still lead the industry, just like it's unbelievable that Ron gets with Hermione. A lot of employees have never had any experience outside of Bloomberg because they are that stupid; they never get hired elsewhere. Finding an employee who has experience at a decent company like Amazon or Google is nearly impossible because Bloomberg does not attract quality. Forget Amazon and Google; finding an engineer with a computer science background is difficult at Bloomberg. The project assigned to me was so terrible, I am embarrassed to put it on my resume. As an intern, it was painful to realize that all engineers surrounding me were unbelievably stupid. One engineer (over 2 years) did not even understand Git, even though his code was using Git. Speaking of Git, a lot of the repositories I saw had no .gitignore. And even though they have GitHub, almost nobody uses it because, did I mention? They are that stupid. If Google or Microsoft ever decided to get into the financial industry, they could easily take out Bloomberg. This company has hammered my expectations of working in a corporate setting, which may be a good thing. If you have a degree in anything other than computer science, you will adore this place. The current employees are not passionate about the product as much as they are passionate about New York. The conversion rate for interns is unbelievably low because nobody wants to experience hell twice.