Software developer - Senior Financial Software Developer Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
Apr 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits - everything you can think of, including 401k matching, food & snacks, etc Very stable company - even during the last financial crisis they never fired anyone (or so I was told) Great office - Lexington 731 is probably one of the best looking offices in NY, if not the best one. Prepare to meet famous people:) Nice people - generally people are really nice and helpful. Many know each other for years, if not decades.

Cons

You will be working with very professional, nice, often very experienced but mostly mediocre people. Prepare to work with in-house technologies created by those people. You will spend years acquiring non-transferable knowledge (comdb2 anyone? Or maybe a spoon of rapid+?) that nobody in the industry cares about. Eventually you might find yourself in a situation where bloomberg is the only company that is willing to pay you for your outdated/deteriorated skills. Welcome to the family. At least nobody will scold you of your project takes 3 times as much time as planned for no reason. You might even get a promotion, if you worked for the company long enough.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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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.

4.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
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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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