Pros
Amazing colleagues and people Great overview of financial players Decent - but not superb - corporate benefits (pension, art galleries access, healthcare) It looks good on your CV if you're smart and are able to sell it well afterwards (and if you're lucky and your future employer hasn't already heard of this department) Diversity and inclusion, lots of respect for culture/belief/sexual orientation/ideas, diversity is really promoted here, and this is fantastic. It's a safe company to work at if you don't care about the meaning of your job, they will never fire you (unless you do something really bad)
Cons
First and foremost, the Analytics and Sales programme, is basically a call-centre. They will try and fancy it up as much as they can, and sell it to you..but it's essentially a customer service call centre, like that of a mobile phone carrier. okay? You will find yourself lying to yourself and telling your friends that you're an "aNaLyst iN FiNaNce" but you're simply a little replaceable tool in the decadent Bloomberg Terminal customer service support.. The company is obsessed with data and micromanagement, especially the Analytics (ADSK) department. They will drive you insane and push the limits of human respect and decency. They will be abusive to you. Read as many positive reviews as you want to convince you otherwise, you will still end up feeling this way or being in denial and paying the mental consequences later. Micromanagement to the extreme, if you go to the toilet, there is a statistic for the time you left your desk and this will impact your salary review/bonus/progression. Lots of politics, if you play the game well you get away with it and succeed, if you're honest and don't cheat, you will never make it. Only smart cheaters win here, not the hard working people. No work from home or other office flexibility, I almost lost my only ID once because Bloomberg wouldn't let me work ONE day from one of their offices in my Country of origin. At the same time they go on social media and brag about their network of offices and flexibility to explore regions and the world/rotational scheme...it's all a lie. The company also promotes the idea of moving intra-department and growing your career and skills, they blocked me 3 times from moving department, they kept me captive in 2 different departments in the same way, and this is because all senior members of the team left and abandoned ship for something more decent than this "job". Clients. Ohhh the clients. Clients verbally abuse you, everyday. EVERY. DAY. They shout at you on the phone, they insult you via the tickets on the customer service. They call you R word, they call you stupid. They threaten you. Have fun if you join. Your schedule is pre-fixed, you have no power over it, you always have to be punctual and on time otherwise management will intimidate you and tell you off, yet if a ticket/client request/meeting overruns your lunch or your end of day, you have to lose your own time, and often lose lunch. This was literally the worst experience in my whole career, many many colleagues lost their minds, some got depressed, some quit without a job, some believe in the corporate dream and are still lost in The Matrix and will end up staying in BBG for the rest of their lives with £2k increase every year, too tired and lazy to try move to a normal company. Company culture is a joke. HR is a joke, their default reply is "sorry, this has to be discussed with your Team Leader”. But the TL have no power, rules always prevail. Mike Bloomberg spends 500millions on Facebook ads for his hopeless presidential campaign and his company hits 11bn revenue, yet his firm pays offensively low salaries, low end of year increases, low bonuses, doesn't provide you with hardware to work from home with, no mid-year salary reviews (even if you change drastically role and seniority in April, you’re stuck on the same salary until March of the year after), sales doesn't get paid commissions!!