Pros: Loved the people, and the snacks! A great company to do an internship with!

Cons: None I can think of. The pay is fairly good, but maybe not as good as some other companies might provide.

Pros: Profitable company, name recognition, resume builder, frequent talks by industry-leading distinguished speakers, unlimited free almond milk

Cons: High-stress environment. Company culture opposed using products developed outside the company (in the name of not being dependent on external suppliers). This led to employees having to use buggy internally-developed systems for mail, chat, calendar, bug tracking, room reservations, etc. Hard work and talent were not rewarded or appreciated. Out-of-touch management did not know enough about industry-standard software development practices to improve morale and efficiency. Poor leadership rewarded employees for undermining peers. Knowledge hoarding among employees for job protection was common. While the company overtly promised training opportunities for employees, employees were often discouraged from getting training and frequently had to cancel it due to excessive workloads. Some long-term employees, while having plenty of experience with operating internal legacy systems, had no software engineering experience, yet directly managed software engineers. Industry-standard software development practices were lacking: * No automated build system (developers hand-built code deployed to production servers) * No automated testing * Highly manual software deployment and configuration management * No integration between revision control and software release systems * No integration between code review and software release systems Code base has large technical debt due to poor oversight and no leadership eye toward maintainability and code quality. Employees in a "senior software developer" role spent less than 10% of their time on development, with most of their time spent dealing with manual software deployment and frequent operational emergencies due to software breaking.

Pros: A lot of money, all cash. If you're totally cool with the corporate life, you never have to leave. The company is insanely stable. You'll survive all market conditions.

Cons: Old tech is painful. Return-to-office sucks. Bureaucratic nonsense is real (even if they try to argue it's not). The office is new and modern, but kinda lifeless. 90% of the time, there's no food. When there is food, it's a bowl of soup, and people line up 100 feet waiting 5 minutes. It feels very depressing. The "values" just feel like a bunch of fluff to make everyone feel good and feel like they're doing a good thing. The Bloomberg Philanthropy is a lot about the PR. It all kinda feels dystopian. There's not enough room for everyone to get ahead (naturally, not their fault). To get ahead, you'd need to spend years (even if they say you don't need to) just because there are no positions available. And there will be others just as good as you who are qualified. The terminal is old and annoying. It's cool at first, but it gets old real fast. You never actually learn how to use the terminal like a finance guy. There's no real training/on-boarding to teach you the Bloomberg ecosystem (which is important).