Avoid technology if you want to write good software
Avoid technology if you want to write good software
- 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.
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Financial Software Developer
Technology interview, very friendly interviewers. Q1: What is a static variable? What is a static function? Think of a case where you can make use of a static variable or a static function. Q2: Implement a basic traverse tree in Java. Print out the
Financial Software Developer
I spoke with representatives from Bloomberg at a career fair on campus. They administered a quick, in-person coding test, asking me to find the character that occurred most frequently in an array. I handed them my resume, and they mentioned they wou
Financial Software Developer
Applied through a college career fair. Received an email to schedule a phone interview. The questions were pretty standard coding questions; I'd refer to CareerCup. Had an on-site call to New York. They were kind of cheap on travel and food. Both my
Financial Software Developer
Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesMarch 1, 2014Technology interview, very friendly interviewers. Q1: What is a static variable? What is a static function? Think of a case where you can make use of a static variable or a static function. Q2: Implement a basic traverse tree in Java. Print out the
Financial Software Developer
United StatesFebruary 5, 2015I spoke with representatives from Bloomberg at a career fair on campus. They administered a quick, in-person coding test, asking me to find the character that occurred most frequently in an array. I handed them my resume, and they mentioned they wou
Financial Software Developer
New York, New York, United StatesFebruary 1, 2014Applied through a college career fair. Received an email to schedule a phone interview. The questions were pretty standard coding questions; I'd refer to CareerCup. Had an on-site call to New York. They were kind of cheap on travel and food. Both my
