Bloomberg reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(8,238 total reviews)
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Michael R. Bloomberg and Vlad Kliatchko

85% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Bloomberg has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,238 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bloomberg employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Apr 30, 2016

Good for your next job

Recommend
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Pros

The company is well known and it gives you the opportunity to find a better job afterwards, due to its reputation.

Cons

The work doesn't add any value to real life, you get restricted to operating the terminals and selling them, once you leave you don't know anything else apart from that. They pass the idea that you can easily be transferred from one country to another, but in reality there are a lot of politics and this only happens in rare cases.

2.0
Apr 25, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Global reach. International workforce who frequently work together in global projects. Good reputation with clients. Comprehensive internal management and billing systems. Benefits. Lots of opportunities to learn everything you want about finance, business and investments. Private company not concerned with quarterly results. Financially stable and solid, with immediate access to a large pool of low-cost capital from its founder and controlling shareholder, Mr Bloomberg, who is very, very rich.

Cons

Zero career opportunities if you have experience. Employees are treated like disposable razor blades, which are easily replaced and widely available. Ambition, hard work and results not rewarded by either promotion or pay. Their over focus in finance does not mean you will get a job in the front-office of a bank. Pay not tied to transparent performance, but to obscure criteria. Company wide under staffing, over working, numbness and demotivation. Mindset, vision and management vastly dominated by white, male, Americans and British. Lack of career opportunities at more senior levels means you might do the same job for years, which is very negative for morale and negative for creating a portfolio of updated marketable skills. Dangerously overexposed to, and overdependent of, a single product that might become obsolete, the Bloomberg terminal, and to a single cyclical client type who has not grown since 2008, global financial market players. Difficult to create meaningful new revenue sources to complement the Bloomberg terminal. Company replaced the go-get-it culture its founder had by a back-to-the-wall micro-management bureaucracy from the senior managers Mike choose to run his company. Sales staff easily spends more time filling CRM, management, travel, billing systems and assorted reports than selling!

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