Bloomberg L.P. Reviews in Singapore, Singapore Area

Pros

-Energetic atmosphere
-Great work culture especially with the open floor seating arrangement
-Flat organizational structure making people easily approachable
- Meritocratic culture

Cons

- Low transferable skill, skills acquired in jobs within Bloomberg are of little use outside the company
- Slow growth, have to work many years on job before getting promoted

Pros

diversity (nationalities, races, languages)
work life balance
transparency
fast pace
nice pantry and healthy selection of snacks and drinks
fun and friendly bunch of young people
great brand name
most people do try to find better and faster way to do things

Cons

a media & data provider and not a finance company --> limited exit opportunities for a finance career
can't stay too long unless you want to be a news reporter or work life balance
longer hours than average for the same pay (8-6)

Pros

Good culture, good people, good pantries

Cons

Work long hours, but it is usual, as other good company in Singapore

Pros

- good opportunities
- friendly colleagues
- great culture

Cons

- can be very fast paced and demanding during peak periods
- long working hours

Advice to Senior Management

- NA

Pros

Medical insurance is very good. Working environment is nice. No OT.

Cons

Limited career development as the company is not very big.

Advice to Senior Management

Better sharing.

Pros

Nice work environment
Good work life balance

Cons

Dissatisfactory compensation
Reasonable expat package should be given to those moving to overseas offices.

Advice to Senior Management

Should not force employees to relocate to other countries without acceptable compensation package. HR were not helpful at all

Pros

good benefit
good pantry
nice fishtank
good place to learn on finance industry, but learning curve is not steep.. get really BORED after a while!

Cons

salary and bonus are belong market rate in SINGAPORE
manager only promote who they like(need to kiss a lot of asses)
there are a lot operational work needed to be done but manager do not see that as exceptional. and they still question you on why you don't stand out, be more creative and innovative. there is no TIME! but they said time can be made... HUH?
Managers are not specialist in the products. They only know how to butter things to their manager.

Advice to Senior Management

YOU should give your bonus to the people who do the JOB!

Pros

Positive environment through interaction with mostly motivated staff and clients from the financial sector. Training was systematic and comprehensive. Good exposure to service C-level executives.

Cons

Don't expect compensation to match that of financial services. Job can get quite mundane after some time. Very little resources set aside for personal development or team building activities.

Advice to Senior Management

Staff retention could be improved by spending more time to collate and address feedback.

Pros

Good healthy snacks, drinks and breakfast are provided.
Clean, beautiful and comfortable office/ working environment.
Fixed working hours - rarely have to work overtime.
Don't really have to worry about work when going on leave as you pretty much finish what you have to do within the same day. (no backlogs)
Lots of internal trainings provided with a wide range of subjects to choose from.
Lots of party, luncheons, dinners, drinks organised throughout a year, good opportunity to bond with colleagues.
Very nice colleagues who are sincere, fun loving and very little office politics.
The company is very supportive of philantrophic activities and recognizes employee's effort in community service.

Cons

Long working hours in Asia compared to the rest of the Bloomberg offices, for example Asia works 8am to 6pm (10 hours) while London/ NY works 8am to 5pm - which is unfair really.
Rigid lunch schedule; in Singapore we lunch at 1050am, 1115am, etc... very weird timings and you have to be back from lunch ON TIME even if you were stuck on a client's issue for 30mins - you don't get compensated.
It's an irony when we say alot of times we feel really hungry given that the Bloomberg pantry is just there - but you don't get the time to go because you're SO BUSY and you cannot afford to leave your desk for lunch etc.
MICRO MANAGERS are everywhere in Analytics, they ask "where are you" 100 times a day, we have to report to our managers when we go to the toilet, go for lunch, to get a drink or just to run downstairs to meet the deliveryman - they want to know EVERYTHING about you.
Sometimes they will ask you to go to the toilet and come back ASAP. :(
Asia Analytics managers do not protect their subordinates when it comes to a complaint by a client or even internal employees - in other words the Analytics representative is ALWAYS in the wrong no matter what - treated like dirt.
Asia managers are too weak and incompetent compared to their NY/LO counterparts.
Evaluation of employees is a joke - simply put - they award money to whoever they like and not to the people who actually performed well.
Asia Pac Analytics manager is biased, incompetent, all talk and no action - a loser.

Advice to Senior Management

Groom the right people to become managers, not the incompetent people who can talk better than they work (pretty much referring to the Asia Analytics manager).
Better compensation for Analytics people.. come and work here and you will understand how stressful and dissatisfying the job is.
Get anyone who complains about Analytics to come and sit at your department and do our job for 1 week and they will understand why it's not easy.
Please do not change your policies once every 6 months. I realise the management in Bloomberg always like to fix things that are not broken in the first place.
Less micro managing (applied to my department only)... it's really juvenille some of the things our managers say and do...like for example "please kindly come back from the toilet asap as it's busy..".. ..??????... sigh.

Pros

Free food, good work-life balance. Regular office parties, lots of free booze :). Firm seems to spend money like crazy, at the slightest excuse. Pity that they dont cut down on unncessary parties and so on, and increase employee pay a bit more. Work culture is good, and mostly your superiors are really open and accessible to you, no matter how low down the rung you are.

Cons

Difficult to grow as its such a huge organization. Not much learning happens, unless you spend a lot of time at the firm and proactively try to learn stuff. Job as such wont teach you much. Sad to say this, but the image of this company is overhyped outside. Most of the time you are actually doing backend, boring and monotomous jobs (with the possible exception of some of the sales guys).

Advice to Senior Management

Like the new direction the new company is taking. Keep up the good work.