Bloomberg Software Engineer reviews

Like with all big companies, it was hard to bring changes in. And when you give up - there are others coming who don't. And then you feel that they have achieved more in less time.

(Your experience will GREATLY differ depending on what team you join. The following only applies to my particular experience in a particular team.) Company-wide: * Too many people are being hired without the required skillset. E.g. many new developers with no previous C++ experience are trained on C++ for 2 weeks then start writing production code. You can imagine the results. * Legacy technology, legacy infrastructure. This varies from team to team, but in general every technology used here is quite hold and a PITA to work with. Want to use a library from GitHub? Good luck - Bloomberg has its own potentially-incompatible C++ Standard Library implementation. Want to use C++14? Nope, ancient compilers are used to support obsolete architectures. Team specific: * Most of the work is not engaging/interesting and revolves around implementation of business logic with no real algorithmic/performance challenge at all. * You are encourage to make the the code "as simple as possible for new hires". No - hire people who know the language that's being used well, instead. * Working from home is a perk of the company, but I find it very hard to do it without feeling like my manager is upset about it. I wish this was encouraged and easier to schedule as long as people are doing their job. When I'm writing a component I don't need to be in the office - just let me do my work and come to the office when it's beneficial to everyone.