Smart people paid ridiculous salaries to slog through ancient systems - Financial Applications Developer Bloomberg Employee Review

4.0
Oct 15, 2008
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Pros

High pay, free food, beautiful building, great location, smart people.

Cons

Ancient architecture, no coding standards, no commenting of code, no documentation, poorly designed and documented, buggy, incomplete GUI framework which you are forced to use, weird UI standards, little inter-group code sharing, poor common tools

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Great company, in this role you have the chance to learn about the financial markets, the terminal, and also you get client exposure.

Cons

Not really cons, culture is great.

1.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

- Working hours are a standard 8-5, 7-4, or 9-6, depending on what you are scheduled. - Opportunities to meet great clients - Benefits

Cons

- Terrible analytics managers and TLs - The department is known for micro-management - Have seen discrimination across the analytics and sales departments multiple times

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