How do it we feel about the company? Seems to be all the rage among the class of 2023.
I’ve never applied to bloomberg nor seen it as a serious company. Feel dumb.
Don't feel dumb it is not a serious company
It's not bad. I recommend them as an employer. My top warnings: - 5 day RTO on the way, we get monthly emails threatening this in a "we know you're dying to come back" format. - some 99% of US hires must live in or commute to NYC. There is no perm remote here without significant tenure and exception. - tech stack is (generally) horrible and proprietary - if you write code expect 5% of your day to be coding and 95% of your day to be asking questions about ancient BB systems in 4000+ person chat rooms praying someone knows the answer - "Dark-Scrum" is infesting engineering in the worst way. Some teams are safe but it's getting harder to avoid - Culture is good generally but some orgs are largely ex-GS or ex-Amazon management, and they brought their culture with them - We hire new grads like crazy but they leave almost as fast for one reason or another - BB has never done mass-layoffs as many know, but there are quieter pockets of layoffs that target individual teams of 10 or so people at a time. Again, I like BB overall, but there's a lot to consider that I don't think New Grads will like.
That’s your perspective in Bloomberg but that doesn’t apply to the rest of the industry.
@Amazon yes but I will direct you to the thread title and topic
Genius take
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/business/michael-bloomberg-nda.html
I'm paid to write code not like the guy
I work like 3 h a day lol WLB is nice for sure Comp bumps YoY are meh
"I work 3h/day" and "comp bumps are meh" in one post :) wonder how these two things might be related
Lets not pretend comp isn't pure politics.
just had on-site with BLAW. I have to say, solid rounds with practical problem the team encountered in daily work. And there is one round requires me to write python notebook given real data. Apparently, I failed. I blanked out and couldn’t even manipulate the data using panda data frames. I feel very bad and for sure I will be expecting an reject letter soon during vacation. Really sad but really nice rounds
Bloomie is unique environment. Very old school, doesn't believe in WFH. There hand was forced when people started leaving. When I worked there women were not treated fairly especially in the technology areas. Still old school mentality. Getting ahead is very bloated, very hard to move up the ladder. Really good medical.
Hey can you refer me for product roles,
@LujT65 can you elaborate on the women In tech not being treated fairly?
Probably because they pay more than BB banks, but are only marginally harder to get into
Nah, it’s cuz their still one of the few firms hiring at full speed across all levels and stability is unmatched ($200k newgrad all cash + didn’t layoff or stop hiring in 2020/2008-09/2000-02) From my friends still in college, entry level positions almost everywhere else are full/frozen at this point for >$150k.
When does bb start paying 200k to new grads or you just making up numbers?