Bloomberg LP

The training program for out-of-college new hires is very thorough. The knowledge learned in the initial year is very useful. It is substantial in both quantity and quality.

The company is very fast-paced, so there's no time to think through the design. It is more important at the company to get the results out rather than have a solid design. This means create a hack, a short-term band-aid solution that will fix the issue at hand and get the product out the door, even if the hack will create a huge amount of problems down the road.

Also, junior programmer's bonuses are not decided based on the person's performance. They are rather divided from the leftovers in the bonus pool after the management and the senior developers get their share. (Each department gets a dedicated bonus pool.)

Please treat your junior programmers the same way as you would senior ones, in terms of opinion, design decisions, and bonus. Do not treat us like another piece of resources.