Nice start, big disappointment - Analyst Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
Mar 8, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Health Insurance, Nice Office, Good People. I met some great people at Bloomberg and their health insurance and other benefits are without a doubt the best you can get. At first it appears like a meritocracy that values creative thinking and good work. There is some mobility within the firm and if you are pushy enough and talk to the right people you can try new things. Their philanthropic efforts are really great and you have a lot of opportunity to participate, which the company will generously match.

Cons

Big Brother Culture, Ridiculous Metrics, Horrible Middle-Management, Inability to Admit Defeat. Sadly, soon enough you realize that Bloomberg is just another imagination-deprived big company where the mediocre sucker uppers thrive and creative thinking or criticism is not valued at all.There is just as much corporate BS and ridiculous self-serving mismanagement as any big company they try so hard not to be. If you want to do well, never say what you mean and never mean what you say. I think their supreme success with the terminal gives the company the mistaken impression that they will be successful at anything just because they say so. It'll be interesting to see where it all goes.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunities to do lots of work with data and finance to apply knowledge in both programming and Subject-Matter Expertise (SME). Excellent Work-Life Balance (WLB) and extremely welcoming culture. You can reach out to anyone for help or just to talk, and they will get back to you (although management does require more scheduling in advance). Generous compensation (good wage) and benefits, including housing for interns. If you heard the rumors that the Bloomberg Princeton office has a great Bloomberg Pantry (read: company-provided breakfast and lunch), the rumors are true.

Cons

Not the place for those looking for cutting-edge AI. The company is not as fast with AI as the company prioritizes reliability and accuracy above all, and much of AI is not at an acceptable threshold for management to be willing to take that risk with financial data (at least in 2026). You may get a project to automate menial processes, which is really cool, but that tends to involve actually doing the menial processes, which feels unproductive. Princeton office is good but New York is considered preferable. Coworkers are not very reachable outside of work hours. Compensation is low in Data compared to Software Engineers.

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