Nice place to collect a pay check - Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

1.0
Aug 10, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is high for Tokyo market. Flexible work hours. Nice place to collect a pay check so long as you keep your head down, and don't plan on fixing anything. There is also a good volunteer program, and nice office events. Handful of strong engineers to work with and learn from.

Cons

Engineering department is in late-stage bozo explosion. Inept management with poor technical skills and zero desire to fix anything unless there is an obvious way it can be used to win points with upper management... and sometimes not even then. It's mostly risk aversion: better to leave a system broken than fix it and risk exposing other broken things. You get to watch/play the blame game whenever things break, or sit in meetings and come up with a good story that leaves the team/manager/org looking innocent. I think some people call this politics. No hope for decent management as anytime there is an opening, management promotes a technically deficient individual contributor that is unlikely to upstage them by doing any meaningful work. If you try to transfer to a less dysfunctional team, your transfer might get blocked by management with some really flimsy reason given for why you weren't selected for an opening on another team - this actually happened to someone recently. HR might listen to your complaints, but they will do absolutely nothing. In the worst case, if your complaint is about a manager, they will work with that manager to make it go away. One manager was reported for sexual harassment, with zero consequences, then the same manager started hiring more and more young women, using "diversity and inclusion" as an excuse. Am expecting that #METOO moment any day now..

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5.0
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Great company, in this role you have the chance to learn about the financial markets, the terminal, and also you get client exposure.

Cons

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2.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

Great Office, Free Snacks and plenty of social events

Cons

Be prepared for a heavily politicised culture — it's pervasive and affects day-to-day working life significantly. The organisation suffers from clear in-group favouritism at the leadership level, where certain groups are visibly preferred for opportunities, recognition, and advancement. This creates an uneven playing field and quietly damages morale for those outside those circles. Leadership collaboration leaves a lot to be desired. In four years, I didn't experience a single structured team-building or bonding initiative — a telling sign of how little investment goes into people and team cohesion. Perhaps most concerning is the approach to compliance. Raising legitimate concerns or challenging existing practices is met with significant resistance from senior stakeholders, rather than genuine engagement. A culture where pushback replaces accountability is one worth approaching with caution.

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