Bloomberg LP

• Smart colleagues and team leads.
• Decent salary and compensation.
• Lots of good technical practices, like emphasis on code quality and issue tracking (but depends on the team vastly).
• Lots of good organizational practices, like reimbursement for tuitions and on-site fitness coach.
• Lots of interactions with business and other engineering teams to grow your communication skills.

It was very bureaucratic when it came to taking care of their employees. I applied for a course in a university with their tuition aid. However, when I left, HR asked me to pay back the full amount since I left within a year. I understand that it was in the policy, but the course was directly related to our work, and I did apply what I have learned. It was also not like I left immediately after the course (> 8 months). I felt they could have been more generous to their employees.

There were also numerous other cases, like they declined my WFH requests when I needed to go back to my country and vote. I also think the tech stack they used is very outdated.

Their frameworks and tools (DBMS, deployment tool, etc.) were almost all proprietary. I did not notice how undesirable my skillset was until I returned to the job market.

I would not recommend any engineer who values their career path to stay there for very long.

Put in effort to modernize your tech stack, or stop telling people that you are a tech company!