Used to be better - Senior Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

- since they drank the scrum koolaid, micromanagement has worsened and it’s night on impossible to be entrepreneurial or innovative except for very limited and managed one day a fortnight “10% time” - pointless return to office is being enforced with no exceptions or consideration for train strikes, childcare needs, etc. despite the last 3 years having proven the teams can work just as effectively (if not more in many cases) remotely. - return to office is slowly creeping up from 3 days to 4 every week. - no justification or explanation given for RTO, it’s just “policy” - hypocrisy of big internal marketing signs and slogans up marketing “Bring your kids to work day by Bloomberg Working Families Community” while at the same time being told the small work from home allowance left is explicitly not to be used for childcare emergencies or needs, and talk of “the days of seeing kids in the background of zoom calls” being over (I mean how petty can you get - we want to pretend our workers are automatons who aren’t humans with lives outside work, so we can’t even see traces of any humanity or children- you must appear a corporate drone at all times). - Disastrous loss of morale with the RTO attitude and hypocrisy.