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Bloomberg: 270k Google: 290k I've been at Google for few years. Not sure about Bloomberg culture and growth opportunities. Should I move? Is Bloomberg or Google better for long term?
Changing companies without a TC or level/scope bump is a missed opportunity. If you change companies every 3 years, each move should be strategic for your long term career growth.
Thank you for the advice!
Roles? Is it uplevel or downlevel? Lots missing
Designers. Same level (senior)
Please take Google! DM if you need more thoughts!
Thank you for the advice! Noted and will do!
The tech at Bloomberg is severely outdated. If you’re lucky, you can get onto teams using newer green field tech, but there’s a huge amount of C++. The higher ups keep saying they’re all for adopting open source, and giving back, but a majority of teams still use antiquated tech. Our “golden path” for creating a new application involves a shitty internal version of gRPC and comdb2 (an old shitty DB) *Almost forgot to mention our terminal is built in some god forsaken custom front end framework that’s a frankensteined version of JS/HTML. You have to leave comments for their interpreter to parse the file correctly, testing and type safety only really became a thing very recently, and my experience with it has been bad. It can only make network calls using the custom networking protocol, no HTTP Trying to do something past 5pm? Good luck, they’re restarting every machine in the company, likely ones that support your VPNs ability to run at a speed >20kB/s The WLB rumors are a lie, you definitely have to work 40+ hours, but it’s rated highly because Bloomberg is considered fintech and so it’s not as bad relative to most banks/hedge funds Still some Fortran sitting around that people who’ve joined in the last 10 years have learned/maintain You aren’t paid OT for outages/when on call, and you’re expected to work your normal hours the next day even if the outage goes from 10pm-6am because “it’s your fault it happened” (this is especially bad in the trading department) I’d go with Google. Let me know if you’ve got any tips for cracking their interview
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and all the advice! I'm so sorry you have to experience these things. I will go with Google. DM me for any interview tips!
It’s all good. I just look at it as a stepping stone. Hoping to move towards Google, or possibly a hedge fund at some point in the near future. The money was life changing, so I’d say I still came out on top
Bloomberg then hedge fund
Can G->hedge fund too
Yes. I have good feeling about bloomberg. U guys never lay off??