All you need to be happy with a bit lower salary - Senior Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

5.0
31 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In Bloomberg management definitely think that engineers are their greatest asset and they invest a lot into their engineers. There are multiple big internal conferences every year, hundreds of continues education courses anyone can attend, it's quite simple to sign up for attending external conferences like CppCon as well. Bloomberg gives away most of their revenue for philanthropy, you can also sing up to multiple various activities yourself, like planting trees, helping homeless etc.

Cons

The compensation is a bit lower comparing to FAANG. There's also no tech lead career path for most senior engineers not wanting to become a manager. On a bright site you can contribute beyond your team.

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5.0
30 June 2026
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Pros

Great compensation, work life balance

Cons

4 days a week on site

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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