Bloomberg LP

• Great benefits
• Good compensation
• Casual work environment
• Market leader
• Good place to coast your career if you just want a stable job
• No layoffs...yet

• No emphasis on software design; the entire mentality is focused on getting the job done as quickly as possible.
• Managers actually discourage you from spending too much time designing code.
• A lot of legacy code that is poorly written with no documentation.
• Management is very set on their ways.
• TONS of proprietary software.
• Lack of professional development.
• Most likely, you will not learn much regarding software development, but you might learn a lot about finance.

-Get some managers who are passionate about technology. -Accept that things aren't "better" just because they are proprietary Bloomberg tools. -Adopt industry standards so employees are motivated.