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Great Perks, Amazing Office, Culturally Repressive

Senior Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Bloomberg LP for 4 years
January 28, 2014
New York, New York
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Probably one of the greatest offices in all of New York.

Free food, snacks, and drinks.

Bloomberg is a great place to get introduced to the finance sector, a great place to stay, or a great leg up into other big financial names.

Bloomberg University gives great classes on a wide range of subjects.

Bloomberg hires the best they possibly can and is willing to pay to get the best.

Cons

A lot of people get siloed into doing one thing; it's very easy to get pigeon-holed. They try to hire big industry names and then pay them to do work that is relatively uninteresting, so they don't stick around. It's very easy to get lost in the organization.

Terminal sales aren't what they used to be. They are working to fix this, but your bonus will probably not beat expectations.

Clocking into and out of work, cameras everywhere, and an open floor plan lead to paranoid workers watching each other for transgressions. It's a very strange environment socially.

Advice to Management

Update some of the odd rules that maybe made sense when this was a 50-person company. Get outside help for this.

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