Pros: Fantastic support for continuing education, excellent location, interesting work, good benefits package including private healthcare, open pay reviews, and a clear bonus structure. Supports the community and encourages involvement with local schools and charities. 10-week training program to get you up and contributing the minute you join your team.

Cons: Long hours, high pressure. The atmosphere occasionally can seem unsupportive. It uses in-house tech rather than common architectures/databases, which can be frustrating to some. It's not ideal if you are more interested in Quant-style work or disinterested in the finance industry.

Pros: Lots of smart and nice people. Bloomberg has a remarkable culture of everyone helping each other. You can reach out to anyone across the world, and they almost invariably will drop what they're doing at the moment to help you out if they can, even though they've never interacted with you before. The work/life balance is healthy. The company is privately owned, thinks long-term, and does not have a share price to chase. It's a large company covering most aspects of the financial industry, and it's very easy to move around when you want to try something new.

Cons: Lagging a bit behind on technology adoption. Nowhere near as bad as banks, but it's not quite up to FAANG standards.

Pros: Good work-life balance, nice office, great atmosphere, friendly people.

Cons: Salaries are low compared to similar roles in the finance industry or GAFAM.