Pros
The office is very nice, Bloomberg requires long hours but pays very well. It's a good name in the industry, so helpful for your career beyond the company
Cons
- Company works employees very hard and has little actual regard for health and wellbeing. People get burnt out at alarming rates, but no changes are made within teams where this is rife - one would think you want to look at management if people keep being squeezed till they break? - Not a lot of flexibility for mothers or consideration for pregnant women. Work days at Bloomberg are longer than normal (you have to sign a waiver when you join), but requests for flexibility on very early starts can be flatly refused. - Very little career progression, few opportunities to move. Managers blatantly ignore instructions from above to help employees develop and try a new beat. Not meritocratic, either managers like you and stop you from moving to other teams or they don't like you and also stop you from moving teams. Bonkers. - Too many managers, not enough journalists in the newsroom. Tend to promote favourites, who are very bad at managing. Not always a very fair place to work.