Pros
***important note to start with: be very cautious with good reviews about the analytics department. Many of them are either written by the senior management or by employees who were asked by senior management to write a positive one as there are too many negative ones here.*** Your colleagues are great. You can find great friends here that you'll stay in contact with even after you leave. You get a lot of training, even though a lot of it is just Bloomberg related and useless on the outside world. There is free food, but they use it to encourage you to stay longer in the office. Breakfast every day from 7am and dinner at 8pm on Tuesday and Wednesday? Who are we kidding here?
Cons
Let's be clear: nobody wants to work in the Analytics department, not even the people who work there. Either they are trying to use it as a stepping stone for another department or for another company all together. Moving into sales is not as easy as they make it sound, unless you speak German or French; otherwise forget about it. The turnover in the department is very high with about 1 or 2 people quitting on a weekly basis. They are being celebrated like they've escaped prison. The micro management is extremely high, many other reviews have gone into this in a lot of detail. The more senior management doesn't care what's going on as long as the numbers turn out in their favour and they can pat themselves on the back. That people get depressions working there is insignificant as long as the statistics in Europe are better than in the US. After a few months of working there, you learn how to manipulate the numbers in your favour and then management tweaks them even more. If you show that you want something too much, you won't get it. They might promise you to move into a different department and then revert on that position last minute. You're supposed to get a pay rise when you become an "advanced specialist" but that doesn't always happen and the reasons are arbitrary or don't exist. Most of the management is in this department for the money. With their skill set, they would only get half their salary in the outside world, so they opted to become "Bloombots". Whoever wrote that job description should get a price. Greatest piece of fiction I have read in a long time.