Bloomberg Reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,205 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 8,205 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
6 Mar 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Extensive and rigorous financial markets and Bloomberg product training in the first few months. Get to do a lot of problem solving and customer service. Michael Bloomberg seems like a great guy.

Cons

Notorious for extreme micromanagement. Structure creates a situation where direct managers are God. Famous for being a "Meritocracy", but what they actually mean is "Monoculture". They promote on the basis of your fit which supposedly includes performance, but more accurately, cultural fit. Cultural fit largely means being liked by your manager. If you are the type of person who can drink the Koolaid, do as your told without question, tow the party line, brown nose etc. You can be Moulded into a Bloombot and fit right in. However if you are an independent thinker, creative, risk-taking, and god forbid; a bit eccentric. You will probably struggle (not to say you can't succeed. It just makes it much much harder).

3.0
4 Jan 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good sales regiment (plenty of training) Learn indepth finance (like a mini-CFA) Lots of young, smart, motivated people Decent starting salary (analytics) Good work/life balance (in larger offices, like NYC) Good benefits

Cons

Company as a whole has plateaued and 'sales' does not really exist Very bureaucratic, plenty of people telling you what to do Clear line between management and non-management (lots of 'private internal meetings') Salary flattens out and veterans get a sense that they are being pushed out (as nobody is ever really 'fired') Smaller offices are over engineered - smallest amount of power gets to management's teeny tiny little head 8-6pm contract typically means "7:30am - don't be the first to leave" Business model is flawed now that other firms are essentially delivering the same technology for much less

1.0
31 Aug 2017

POOR MANAGEMENT

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None. Really can't think of any.

Cons

The company does not value or care about their employees. The management and the human resources department are a total joke. They may seem like a nice and big company but they are not interested in your well-being and work/life balance whatsoever. One of the examples: There was (I bet they were & are still) a sexual harassment by one of the Bloomberg anchors which was reported several times to HR, but the HR told and convinced the victim that the anchor has a wife and family so just to forgive him and do not tell people. The victim was asked to delete all the phone call records from the nasty anchor and eventually left the company.

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