Pros
The company is well established, has great smart people, and the product itself the terminal is a great product. You have a lot of options inside the company to change roles and responsibilities.
Cons
Office politics dominate everything. Your career trajectory in the early years is heavily dependent on who your team leader is, some are excellent, others are disastrous. The workplace is extremely monitored and micromanaged, every millisecond of your time feels tracked under the guise of "transparency." This so-called transparency has created a highly toxic environment where everyone in the department constantly compares themselves to one another. Individual performance numbers don’t just affect you, they directly impact your team and manager’s metrics, which adds even more pressure and unhealthy competition. The culture has strong Orwellian vibes. Employees are implicitly discouraged from openly discussing Bloomberg (or certain internal realities), and there’s a pervasive expectation to pretend everything is great even when it clearly isn’t. Morale is often low, but people keep up appearances. Promotions frequently feel based more on personal sympathy, likability, or “profile” than on actual merit or results. It’s a high-pressure environment that will either forge you or break you, depending on your resilience and the luck of the draw with your manager.