Bloomberg LP

Honestly, any pros you get here can be found in any other company:

• Free coffee
• Free snacks
• Cool benefits ($300 per year on gym memberships, $300 per year on commuting/biking)
• Access to museums and events around NYC for free

As a senior, you will rarely get a chance to grow and become more senior. They will continue to dump random management responsibilities on you until you can be a manager.

Some team engineers don't even code all that much; they're too busy worrying about red tape and meetings all day. Sometimes it takes two days of meetings to make one small code change, which gets scrutinized to no end because no one has actual work. Reviewing CRs (PRs) is something they can mention at stand-up.

Some teams genuinely don't do anything, like actual work; they clock in and clock out.

No one has a larger plan until the last minute. Even if there's a large, looming engineering deadline, they won't care until it's too late.

There are too many managers here. They absolutely should not be managers; they have no people skills and no management skills.

The only way to level up here is to become a manager, so smart engineers become managers. But most of these people can't talk to a brick wall or have no idea how to be a good manager. They need classes on developing engineers rather than punishing them for mistakes they should be correcting. I've seen good hires get bad annual reviews from crappy managers because they don't know how to manage.

If you tell HR about an issue with a manager or an issue, they won't do anything. Even if people are leaving in droves from that team and complain about a manager during the exit interview, that person will just stay on the team and sometimes get promoted.

There's a culture of middle managers who are just trying to justify their jobs. Turn them into engineers and give them raises; don't force them to be managers.

Pay here sucks. You might get a good entry offer, but you will not get a raise no matter how you perform.