Awesome Pay, Benefits, Management, Technically Behind the Times - Senior Software Developer Bloomberg Employee Review

4.0
16 Aug 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are top notch. If you go above and beyond, you will be recognized with huge bonus and huge base pay increase. Full family insurance paid with no employee contribution and a medical doctor in the building you can see for free. Incredible yearly party where a whole island is rented out with amusement park rides and free food -- great for family. Company really does good for society -- e.g. if you volunteer 40 hours, there is a "dollars for your hours" program that can donate $5000 to that charity.

Cons

Technically, seems sort of behind. Half the code base is Fortran. Bizarre restrictions on things like Boost. Low level C++ libraries are high quality, but higher level code is a mess. In many teams, you might spend hours each week just trying to get your code to link because all the libraries are changing underneath you all the time. The databases and GUI are bizarre proprietary stuff that are a pain to use and these skills are useless outside of Bloomberg. The email and proprietary issue tracking systems are terrible, with basic things like word wrapping not working reliably. If you like finance and high salary, you might look past these shortcomings.

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5.0
11 Jun 2026
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Pros

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

Cons

Not really cons, culture is great.

5.0
31 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Only a five-hour-per-week time commitment, which is very manageable with my class schedule. Bloomberg provides ideas for challenges and activities to host at my school, so I would not have to come up with everything from scratch. There is flexibility to choose when I table and to tailor the role around my schedule.

Cons

The budget for the program is tight, which is frustrating because advertising to law students is exactly how Bloomberg Law builds a dedicated user base. In my opinion, whoever makes the budget is not seeing the bigger vision. A lot of attorneys may not like Bloomberg Law, use it regularly, or ask their firms to purchase a subscription simply because they were never meaningfully exposed to it in law school. This is exactly why Lexis has taken over in such a big way: its presence and budget are felt at law schools across the country. If Bloomberg wants future attorneys to become loyal users, it needs to invest more seriously in reaching students while they are still learning which legal research platforms they prefer.

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