Anyone know anything about Bloomberg in NYC as a software engineer? Is it good? Any perks?
Arrogant people to work with. If you have any other option even if the pay is less, don't go to Bloomberg.
I got an horrible offer from Bloomberg who I didn't have any offer. Then I found some referrals and here I am.
Bloomberg will be at last of my list. They steal interview questions from Google and massage their ego by asking those questions in telephonic rounds. I have heard that they market themselves as Google of finance.. Lol may be that's the source of motivation if stealing interview questions. Also there is no work life balance and you will be made to work long hours for stupid managers
not sure if this is true. First of all, what made you think those questions were invented at Google in the first place. In the tech world, there are only so many questions and they get recycled between companies. This is normal.
Well if you find the question you were asked on some blog written by some googler when he retired the question itself. There are scenarios too where you can find from online sources like leetcode and geeksforgeeks that who has asked these questions before. If you want to justify asking questions taken from Google by saying that what's the proof that it was invented by google then its tough to argue. Standards are online forums where people discuss. I have concrete examples and for that reason I am sure of what I have posted. I disagree about saying that there aren't much questions to ask. I can easily come up with few good questions derived from the work I been doing. Also when I look at geeksforgeeks, leetcode, hackerank, careercup I don't think that software engineers are finding hard to come up with good interview questions.. The problem is that some of them don't want to invest their time to do that and then they just read something on google and its solution and throw up on some candidate with unrelaistc expectations which I doubt if they have the caliber to do it themselves in same situation.
Bloomberg has horrible work culture especially in Trading systems team(Think feudal culture). TS has way too many bad managers who make the place a no go for quality people.The head of department for TS is working way above his caliber as a manager. If you want to work in Bloomberg go for software infrastructure. They have some quality people in that area.
Don't go. Don't do it.
Go for Bloomberg if you want to have financial domain on your resume. Purely for programming - not sure ....
Purely for programming there's exactly 1 team: BDE team where they do hardcore C++ at the cutting edge (why Dietmar is not in this team is beyond me). The rest of the company is stuck in the 80s with Fortran, wonky JavaScript, and if lucky, horribly written C++.
BS. If you have to deal with Fortran - you need to change your team
Very bad for fresh graduates!
What's the problem with Bloomberg for fresh graduates. I think we treat them nice.
lots of arrogant people, no software development process either, nobody writes clean code. No concept of TDD and to them agile means having a daily scrum and no more. I have literally had to refactor functions that were minimum 600 lines.
lol then you clearly haven't seen the 15k lines function (yes really, fifteen thousand). It's somewhere in TOMS code if you opengrok it.
Damn, what's the salary or perks? Sounds terrible
Perk is unlimited junk food/soda and pretty office. Health insurance is pretty good. Base salary is slightly above market but when you take stocks into account at other places then total comp is defo lower.
I worked at Bloomberg as a software engineer for a year and a half. It can be a frustrating place to be. Pay-wise, you won't gain much unless you stay for 10-15 years or more. The system for tracking days off is oppressive and results in less time off being taken. There are too many middle managers, many of whom are not qualified for the job. Most technical skills - systems, libraries, frameworks, architecture - are not portable to other companies because Bloomberg is built on a huge pile of proprietary technology. Security department stifles progress by forcing new projects to go through a perfunctory yet lengthy and tedious approval process. I could go on and on... If you have any other options, don't go to Bloomberg.
I guess I'll still interview for the prep
Agree with too many middle managers. They always try to market Bloomberg as a charity org via Bloomberg Philanthropy, and I actually believe it's a charity but for these managers, who get paid buttload to do nothing except for simply being there for too long and incapable of getting a job elsewhere.