Pros
- Decent health benefits: normally $25 copay for PCP and $40 copay for specialist - OK WFH reimbursement: $500 pre-tax money on your paycheck - Decent 401k match up to about $7500, fully vested after 3 years though - Decent work life balance if you are not in busy team - Free access to Bloomberg terminal - 50% reimbursement on wellness each year (bb will pay you at most $300) - Tuition reimbursement around $10K per year, subject to manager approval - Free entry to many museums in NYC with Bloomberg badge - Great team mobility if you want to switch team - Around 20 paid leave days and unlimited paid sick days - OK green card policy (H1B + 1 year for new grads) - Free access to Bloomberg terminal and the news website - Decent pantry but no real breakfast or lunch
Cons
- Lots of legacy tech. Depending on the team, you need to code in fortran and work on solaris/aix machines that vscode does not even support. - Lots of internal tech which are not pleasant to use. Almost nothing related to the Bloomberg terminal is mordern. - Development workflow is extremely lagging for lots of teams. No CI/CD, no linting, no formatter, no docker. Your service will run on a barebone vm instance. Be ready to spend lots of time on figuring out how to build and ship your code. - Most teams adopt the scrum methodology so expect daily standups. Some teams have standups like 2-3 times a week. - Opaque performance evaluation and salary bump. People say there is a magic formula to determine your salary increase. - You badge in/out time show up on your profile and after your email address.