Pros: Work-life balance Benefits Internal mobility Experienced seniors to learn from Travel opportunities

Cons: Old tech stack. DevEx slow sometimes.

Pros: If you have a good team and good work (which there is/are plenty of), then you'll love your time at Bloomberg. Contributions to open source are allowed, and there are a number of internally developed technologies that have been open-sourced as well. The company has a very social and open culture where talking with people is encouraged, and people are approachable at all levels and in all roles. Bloomberg's size and problem space means that sometimes there are no open-source alternatives, or that it is necessary to drill down and improve an existing open-source solution. Smaller companies I worked for had to compromise, but Bloomberg is able to invest the time into creating great technologies if you can justify its need.

Cons: It's luck of the draw as to which team you will land in. As a senior, you will directly be applying to a team, while as a junior developer, you will first be trained and then have a chance to apply to teams that are hiring. Dealing with work that requires help from other teams runs into issues if that team does not have your work as a high priority on their side. This leads to frustrating workarounds or just project stalls altogether. The social company culture can at times mean you get interrupted a lot by people asking for help with things you own, so be careful what you take ownership of.

Pros: What I enjoyed most is how I was integrated with the team. The whole team was involved in the design process, and my PRs were reviewed by almost every member of the team on a regular basis.

Cons: Nothing in particular. However, my personal experience was very dependent on the team, so I can imagine that this was not the case for every intern.