Bloomberg LP

Good pay. New York. The financial knowledge involved in learning the product. The CFA's training classes are keeping the internship program afloat. A pantry, if you have never seen one.

This company is anything but Hogwarts, even when Hogwarts was being torn down.

This company is Ron Weasley with a broken wand. The technology is so outdated, it's unbelievable that they still lead the industry, just like it's unbelievable that Ron gets with Hermione.

A lot of employees have never had any experience outside of Bloomberg because they are that stupid; they never get hired elsewhere.

Finding an employee who has experience at a decent company like Amazon or Google is nearly impossible because Bloomberg does not attract quality.

Forget Amazon and Google; finding an engineer with a computer science background is difficult at Bloomberg.

The project assigned to me was so terrible, I am embarrassed to put it on my resume.

As an intern, it was painful to realize that all engineers surrounding me were unbelievably stupid. One engineer (over 2 years) did not even understand Git, even though his code was using Git.

Speaking of Git, a lot of the repositories I saw had no .gitignore. And even though they have GitHub, almost nobody uses it because, did I mention? They are that stupid.

If Google or Microsoft ever decided to get into the financial industry, they could easily take out Bloomberg.

This company has hammered my expectations of working in a corporate setting, which may be a good thing.

If you have a degree in anything other than computer science, you will adore this place.

The current employees are not passionate about the product as much as they are passionate about New York.

The conversion rate for interns is unbelievably low because nobody wants to experience hell twice.

Start hiring genuine computer programmers. Not part-time programmers with physics or chemistry doctorates. Recruitment is absolutely rubbish, but so are the recruiters.

Hire better HR. Their stupidity attracts more stupidity. They are deceitful as well (I know it contradicts the stupidity part). They have deceived a lot of my friends who joined this year by telling them one thing when giving the offer and sending contradictory emails after joining. You know who you are.

Museum entry fees are free all year round for all Bloomberg employees. Stop making it sound special. Out of all the things in New York, I don't want a museum tour to be my highlight.

Spend more money on current interns, rather than having discovery days and other nonsense.

Michael Bloomberg looks so far from the actual reality. He still looks too involved in New York politics than his own company, even though he keeps saying that he is back.