Global, smells good, jump to buy side funds and others
No tech growth, mediocre colleagues, TL no expertise, no innovation,micromanaging, underpay, no career growth. Lie about immigrations.
Bloomberg Pros: - Moving to NYC (I’m in my 20s and single) - Stable company - Visa Sponsorship (Won’t be laid off within the process, but will need to wait) - All-cash comp - WLB Bloomberg Cons: - 3 days in office (I’m currently remote) - Would be tied to Comp while waiting for GC - NYC cost of ...Read more
Hi folks, new grad here looking for advice on which offer to choose. Quantitative details (TCs are expressed in a single figure but in reality BB is base + bonus and Apple is base + equity) in the poll, qualitative details below: — Locations — Apple: Seattle Bloomberg: New York City — Teams — Appl...Read more
I got an offer from Bloomberg for $270K for Sr. SWE but I have to move to NY. I was actually looking for remote and my finals are scheduled with other companies. 1. Is there any other company which can beat this offer and provide remote? 2. Can I ask for $300K TC because they don't offer stock, t...Read more
I'm trying to make a tough decision picking between Bloomberg vs Amazon (both NYC) Bloomberg (senior Software engineer): TC 210k Amazon (SDE 2): 160 base, 60/55k signing, 60 stock (220 TC) Bloomberg team is for their trading platform Amazon team is in the ads org Both have their Pros and cons Bloo...Read more
What’s best Bloomberg offer for Senior SWE like nowadays with 6 YOE (w/ competing offers) Current TC - 290K #engineering #software #swe
How does bloomberg structure their interview process? I have a tech screen coming up with bloomberg, and it's just going straight to hackerrank, not even a behavioral chat to see if I can talk about my work. Any gotchas I should know about or other advice in general? I'm a jr. sde, don't have a whol...Read more
As much as the money is attractive at HRT, I want to know about the reality of the following 2 points: 1. Mentorship: mentorship received from the other senior members on the team as a Senior SWE myself(3+ YOE) 2. Work-life balance Could anyone help explain those factors?
I am working in Amazon right now and I got an offer from Bloomberg. I’m getting better compensation (35% more) and opportunity to learn new technologies. I feel I have plateaued in Amazon and not doing exciting stuff. I am not sure about if moving to Bloomberg from FAANG will reduce my opportunitie...Read more
Should I jump from Bloomberg to Meta? Passed interviews for E4 last week, though still waiting for team match. Told recruiter I'm NYC only. Current team in BBG is nice. Friendly TL. Good wlb of ~30 hrs a week and no fear of layoffs.. but RTO and commute sucks due to office location. Meta NYC offic...Read more
How do it we feel about the company? Seems to be all the rage among the class of 2023.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-are-you-rich-best-cities-to-live-salary/ "Billionaires know they are. Low-wage workers are very well aware that they aren’t. But vast swaths of America’s “regular rich” don’t feel that way, and it’s keeping everybody down."
A warning to all that are considering Bloomberg: Starting October 18, there will be huge pressure from management to return to office 3 days a week. Meanwhile -- running the function 'NTFY' on the Bloomberg Terminal shows that the # of COVID cases of the (very few) employees that are choosing to g...Read more
which should I pick
I have an offer from Bloomberg and I'm currently at Google. while Google would naturally be the obvious option, now it seems unstable with all the layoffs and the jobs being moved to india. what do you think? all in british pounds Note: the move is not for money, but rather for job security
I got below offer from Bloomberg: Base 185K Bonus 40K No sign-on and loosing unvested stock. I have to move to NY. My current TC is 190K in Boulder office. Should i jump the ship? Can you please share the reason as well?
I joined Bloomberg recently as SSE. I am a bit scared about layoffs in tech industry. It has started to spread in finance as well. Can someone suggest if Bloomberg would be safe in near future? #layoff #tech
Hi, I recently had a virtual onsite interview with Bloomberg. The interview was one day schedule with at least two interview planned and based on that further rounds were planned. So the day ended up me appearing for 6 round of interviews one of them being an informal round. I was under the impres...Read more
Have a new grad SDE offer at Bloomberg starting in mid September. Given the recent layoffs at companies such as Coinbase, Tesla,etc and the overall state of the fintech market. Is there a chance Bloomberg will start laying off as well? Yoe-0 TC- 180k #bloomberg #newgrad
Received an offer from Bloomberg for nyc office. Need opinion on what would be a better choice. I am currently sd2 at Amazon. Is 290k cash($233 k base + 57k bonus). Is 290k good amount to live with family and commute to nyc. How will be Bloomberg as a career choice: growth, wlb, benefits. How is Bl...Read more
How easy it is to jump from Bloomberg to Google, FB, Uber etc in NYC. Edit: Got an offer for SSE 150K base with 20% targeted annual bonus. No sign on though. 2.5 yrs exp