Sales & Analytics - Anonymous employee Bloomberg Employee Review

3.0
Oct 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Foreign employees literally pay 0 for work visa, available option to relocate/transfer to different city once you're hired. A lot of financial product training, because this role accepts a lot of fresh grads/people with no finance background. You can leave work on the dot. If you have kids/family issues, work from home is an option. Coffee and breakfast are sponsored. Many volunteer programs all employees can participate. If you're a driven learner, it's easy to get started & mingle with other experienced employees.

Cons

Culture wise, it's not perfect but this job attracts a lot of like-minded, reasonable, hardworking and honest talents that don't really go all out to harm others for their own benefits. Job wise, learning curve is steep in the beginning, flattens out after 8-9 months. Very number driven, schedule is micro managed, you can't have "idle time" cos they're watching you out.. Service impact is limited since we're chasing numbers. Business decision is made top down from HQ so we're just executing a strategy that doesn't really apply to most of our clients in Asia. Yet management wants everyone to be superhumans that hit both number and quality of service.. Not sure if this is a bad thing or just reality of working for data vendors cos everyone's fresh out of school and hardly ever been working in clients' side. Great place to start but not a place to stay forever.

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Pros

Opportunities to do lots of work with data and finance to apply knowledge in both programming and Subject-Matter Expertise (SME). Excellent Work-Life Balance (WLB) and extremely welcoming culture. You can reach out to anyone for help or just to talk, and they will get back to you (although management does require more scheduling in advance). Generous compensation (good wage) and benefits, including housing for interns. If you heard the rumors that the Bloomberg Princeton office has a great Bloomberg Pantry (read: company-provided breakfast and lunch), the rumors are true.

Cons

Not the place for those looking for cutting-edge AI. The company is not as fast with AI as the company prioritizes reliability and accuracy above all, and much of AI is not at an acceptable threshold for management to be willing to take that risk with financial data (at least in 2026). You may get a project to automate menial processes, which is really cool, but that tends to involve actually doing the menial processes, which feels unproductive. Princeton office is good but New York is considered preferable. Coworkers are not very reachable outside of work hours. Compensation is low in Data compared to Software Engineers.

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