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OK, if you can tolerate (or avoid) the legacy infrastructure and don't get sucked into working extra hours

Financial Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at Bloomberg LP for less than 1 year
July 2, 2008
London, England
3.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Compensation, relaxed work atmosphere--no dress code and semi-flexible hours.

Cons

Long hours, some of the technology in use is truly awful. Although in recent years this has improved tenfold, there is now a mix of okay and very bad.

Advice to Management

Forget trying to add Facebook-style social elements to the terminal.

Go through some ADSK tickets. You'll see from the number of complaints for POSH<GO> and DINE<GO> email notifications, etc., that people do not want a half-baked Facebook knock-off.

They want modern, useful functions to make their job easier, e.g., IMAP<GO>.

Invest some resources into updating old, core functions. Granted, it's not going to sell terminals, so I'm not saying go nuts on it, but a little would be good.

Hire some people who know about UI design and interaction. The terminal's general level of usability is not good, e.g., the rigmarole involved in sending an email attachment.

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