Blind leading the blind - News Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
14 Jan 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Car service for off-hour shifts. Impressive building. Free snacks. Salary higher than industry average.

Cons

Pretentious staffers who know very little about actual news, but have an Ivy League education so they're given positions they'd have to work years for anywhere else. Little to no value placed on journalism ethics. The company is full of "lifers" who are there for the retirement and salary package and don't care about innovation or striving to do better. The general atmosphere is very serious, despite the fact that the television division doesn't even have enough viewers to warrant a Nielsen rating.

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5.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great culture, benefits, pay, and work-life balance

Cons

The technical challenges can be a bit stagnant. You learn to deal with people rather than systems

4.0
28 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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