Bloomberg LP

Fairly good pay and benefits, but it would have to be in NYC.

• 4 weeks vacation
• Learning the Bloomberg terminal and APIs could help you find a good job someday.

Awful code is the norm, and nobody seems to care.

17-inch monitors.

Everybody is long on excuses for problems, short on solutions.

Ridiculous, cramped, noisy work environment.

It's hard to argue with the success that Bloomberg has had. I would say that the continued refusal to follow any modern, standard software development practices will create a drag on the company in increased costs and turnover, and the refusal of ambitious, creative programmers to work there. Bloomberg has enough money to keep going on its own, but it's vulnerable to an upstart who does things right using modern tools.