How much of a step up from capital one is Bloomberg, in terms of brand name on resume?

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Dec 21, 2021 33 Comments

Would it make it easier to get into places like Pinterest, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Netflix, etc.?

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  • Stay away from bbg, its hell
    Dec 21, 2021 3
    • Shitty upper management, Bloomberg wants everyone in office, rto propaganda, toxic culture, no growth, shitty salary to existing employees- new hires getting shit load of money, archaic tech stack, 0 transparency .. list just goes on, check pulse score, Bloomberg is only worse than better.com
      Dec 21, 2021
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      Stay away they pay a “shit load of money” 🤣
      Dec 25, 2021
  • Lots of people move to FAANG+, and a lot of recruiters contact me from there (except Apple and Netflix for some reason). Avoid terminal/trading centric teams if at all possible, cause you probably won't learn anything there.
    Dec 21, 2021 5
    • I'm just looking at job descriptions and none of the new interesting technologies are used. You only get programming language experience, otherwise everything is very niche. And yeah the system design is different too. Just very specialized plus it's really hard to try new things that might break when your clients depend on you.
      Dec 21, 2021
    • I don’t agree with that. You would still use sql databases and other data stores, redis caches, kafka etc. Depends on whether you’re on a pure frontend app team or writing backend services and APIs for terminal functions. Also, technologies don’t really matter that much IMO… they change all the time. You will learn to design scalable, reliable systems, manage a large code base, you will get good at debugging etc. and those are skills that are applicable everywhere and will still be relevant 20 years from now.
      Also, with the Linux migration going on right now, there’s tons of opportunities for developing new stuff.
      Dec 21, 2021
  • I made the move from Capital One to Bloomberg. Less than 2 years later I am moving again, with offers from FAANG and hedge/HFT firms. So I suppose in terms of just “brand name” it was sufficient.

    I did generally enjoy my time at BBG though. Feel free to DM with more specific questions if you’d like.
    Dec 21, 2021 8
  • I moved from faang to BBG and still get emailed by faang recruiters almost every day. I can’t speak to how much it differs from cap one but I def like it here. If you can join as senior swe they will pay you quite well… new ppl get great offers these days (though probably still not quite as good as faang or hft). WLB is great.
    Dec 21, 2021 4
  • Completely a step up and way better pay. Easy to move to FAANG + hedge funds
    Dec 21, 2021 0