PSA: Save your yourself from joining the dystopia that is Bloomberg
Save yourself the trouble with a scoop from an insider: The tech is a catastrophically broken legacy mess. You will have to maintain crap from the 80s. Management plays mind game to lowball your TC and nepotism is rampant (but this is probably everywhere, just blatant here at Bloomberg) The culture is incredibly toxic. Think Amazon. The job ads will mislead you, the recruiters will lie to you. Don't bother. You will be hired in to maintain their legacy crap and treated like a slave. If you have an offer, run. If you think about interviewing, save yourself the trouble. If your OPT is running out and desperately need a job, welcome to Bloomberg!
Well, when you’re in the business of fake news...
Hmm weird. I know a few BB engineers who quite enjoy it. Very friendly environment relative to other firms when I interviewed there as well.
yeah they do a good job painting up a nice image. Don't let the free junk food and shiny fish tanks fool you.
I worked at 731 Lex and built a full Bb terminal command and I can fully attest to what the OP is saying. Thankfully I am.away from that fish pond.
take me with you!
Have a friend on the analyst side. He agrees it is so heavily antiquated.
Yeah I’m having a great time here. It’s not hard to find smart people and impactful projects. Some teams do suck quite a bit though, so I don’t doubt OP’s experience.
which team? so that i know the team to avoid
do you have an offer there?
My friend is loving Bloomberg. Works in Infra and enjoys work a ton.
which infra specially? what's the team?
Not sure which team per se. I know that it's the NY office.
Cannot be worse than GS
Is this really how it is at most teams there or just some particular ones?
None of this is true of my experience at Bloomberg, and I'm quite enjoying my work. Make sure you know what team you're joining before you sign the senior eng offer. I had competing offers and was careful to find out about my day to day at each firm before signing, and negotiate a team that fit my interests and tech stack preferences. Unlike Amazon, Bloomberg has no forced attrition policy and WLB is vastly different. You seem to have no concept of Amazon's culture
Nice try, Bloomberg recruiter.
what is your team and what's the stack?