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4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,233 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

85% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,233 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bloomberg employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
May 13, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

* Good snacks * Compensation is okay, but that's not the only thing any good software developer expects in job. Also having good reviews only about the food and compensation for any software development company is shameful.

Cons

Management is pathetic, especially those hired straight from college (With only bachelor's, that too not computer science) and made team leads within 2-3 yrs. First thing they don't have good and deeper technical knowledge as they don't necessarily have all basic computer science background and understanding of product as whole. Having knowledge just about a language (like C/C++) is not same as having actual product development knowledge. Second thing since they are straight out of college they don't have any outside experience and they feel that they do the amazing work while actually its not the case. Also they are just too random/impetuous and irresponsible in their decisions.These guys just tend to make their Evals/Compensation better by making their team members to work the way their managers expects from them. Nowhere in all this, actual product development is been given more importance. They give more importance to the actual no.of hrs worked on rather than the efficiency and output. Also here more importance is given to number of bugs fixed, rather than actually finding the root causes and reducing the number of bugs generated in first place. That's the reason why sometimes its more of a mechanical work/mechanical temporary fixes than a good, challenging work which requires talent. These team leads don't give any credit to the team members who actually work on, but rather will try to explain their contribution in any good thing the members do. Its hard for smart/talented computer science people to strive in the company. The company just needs to maintain their random codebase by keep on adding new things without any good design, introducing new bugs in existing thing, fixing them to introduce something new..... one day that can end up beyond repairable !!

5.0
May 13, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Free breakfast, lunch and dinner. Delicious gormet food. Excellent hours right around 40 per week - get out at 4:30pm

Cons

terrible pay for living in a less than desirable location - most people want to be in new york city

1.0
May 3, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay, very plush office environment, offices are always in great locations, nice perks like an all you can eat snack bar, chauffered car to drop you to and from work if you're scheduled at certain hours, attracts very intelligent people.

Cons

Very grueling environment, hires horrible trainers that don't train new employees properly, sink or swim mentality, prides itself on an 'open door' office environment but is actually the polar opposite, delivers candidates lots of fake promises in the interview process such as international opportunities, quick advancement, etc. senior management is trained to brainwash employees to operate on the fear of losing their jobs, management is free to practice verbal and emotional abuse on employees as a way to garner results, constant stress makes everyone extremely bad tempered so there is little positive interaction with colleagues, absolutely no room for creativity or ideas.

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