Good training program, free food. Good opportunity to make contacts. The male-female ratio is pretty good (on the female side). The summer party is outstanding.
Very, very inexperienced managers, the majority of whom have only ever worked at Bloomberg. This cripples diversity.
There's a bully-type American management style, like something straight out of a textbook. If a task isn't done now, the response is to shout louder or swear. Forget trying to understand the problem; just expect staff to work ridiculously long hours.
From the software engineering side, work is rushed and the technology is old. Bloomberg thinks it can do things better by building its own in-house compilers and dev environments. It can't, period.
Switch to mainstream/open-source software, which is peer-reviewed by thousands of skilled developers.
Hire managers who have worked for several companies, so they can bring diversity and new management practices to the company. Get rid of the current batch of senior managers.
I spoke with them at the career fair. I mentioned that I'd never received a response after applying there every year, so they immediately scheduled me for an on-campus interview. It was a 2-on-1 interview, and it went well. I was promptly scheduled
Applied online and was contacted for a phone interview. They asked about projects on my resume and then proceeded to ask technical questions. There was no coding, but they asked algorithmic questions. It was my first phone interview, so better prepar
Phone interview with two developers. It included: * Behavioral background questions. * A live coding challenge. The background questions involved past projects and experience with implementation details. The coding challenge was a live challenge
I spoke with them at the career fair. I mentioned that I'd never received a response after applying there every year, so they immediately scheduled me for an on-campus interview. It was a 2-on-1 interview, and it went well. I was promptly scheduled
Applied online and was contacted for a phone interview. They asked about projects on my resume and then proceeded to ask technical questions. There was no coding, but they asked algorithmic questions. It was my first phone interview, so better prepar
Phone interview with two developers. It included: * Behavioral background questions. * A live coding challenge. The background questions involved past projects and experience with implementation details. The coding challenge was a live challenge