Worst Mistake of my Career
Worst Mistake of my Career
Stability, prestige – it's a "nice" place to work. You get free snacks and coffee.
Endless streams of soul-destroyingly tedious work. Work that could easily be automated if the proprietary systems you'll have to rely on didn't completely suck. Almost nothing you'll learn will apply in any other environment. The platforms and practices are so eclectic to Bloomberg that if you try to take them anywhere else, you're not going to know what you're doing.
Things like career development, ideas like advancement simply don't exist there. You will be dumped into a massive pool of coders and basically just bang away at a keyboard until one day, you die. I weep for the torrents of inbound kids, fresh from school, looking to start a career and what they have in store for them.
Bloomberg, the world is bigger than you. There are ways of doing things so foreign, so superior to yours that surely they appear to be some form of dark magic. I understand your fear, but if you push through it a little bit, you might be capable of amazing things.
I quit. Good luck.
There is no management.
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Senior Developer
I applied for two teams and had phone calls with each, passing both. I was then scheduled for onsite interviews with both teams. Each round was one hour long and included two engineers. They will ask questions such as "Why Bloomberg" and to define
Senior Developer
The phone interview was followed by a six-round in-house interview on a Friday. The department head asked about salary expectations. I received an offer on the following Monday, with a compensation package that was almost doubled.
SWE New Grad
5 interview rounds: 3 LeetCode, 1 HR, 1 EM. LeetCode rounds are simply tagged as LeetCode. The HR round consists of standard behavioral questions. The EM round is a deep dive into one specific project and the challenges you encountered.
Senior Developer
New York, New York, United StatesMarch 1, 2022I applied for two teams and had phone calls with each, passing both. I was then scheduled for onsite interviews with both teams. Each round was one hour long and included two engineers. They will ask questions such as "Why Bloomberg" and to define
Senior Developer
New York, New York, United StatesJune 1, 2010The phone interview was followed by a six-round in-house interview on a Friday. The department head asked about salary expectations. I received an offer on the following Monday, with a compensation package that was almost doubled.
SWE New Grad
New York, New York, United StatesNovember 14, 20255 interview rounds: 3 LeetCode, 1 HR, 1 EM. LeetCode rounds are simply tagged as LeetCode. The HR round consists of standard behavioral questions. The EM round is a deep dive into one specific project and the challenges you encountered.
