Bloomberg reviews

I mentioned they bring in a fresh batch of kids in every few months - There's a reason for that. The turnover is incredibly high and the reasons for these have been stated lengthily in the other reviews. Probably about 75% of the data teams are complete BS. Most of your job will be manually tagging data day in and day out cranking out work items. Then you will be assigned a block of time where you have to do troubleshooting for clients and their questions. Nobody can escape this, everyone who is an analyst has to do this. It can be manageable if you are on a big team where you might be assigned to do this once a week for a few hours to doing it multiple hours a day. The actual "data analysis" works probably comprises of a small part of your day unless you are an extremely motivated individual who stays in the office for an extra 10 hours a week to do these projects on your own. It is crucial that you find contacts within global data that can give you an honest picture of the data team that you get the offer for. There are some very good teams that are working on exciting projects under talented managers and if you get onto those teams then this should be an auto accept. One of the other things is that it is an unfortunate cycle where the talented folks quickly learn that they either got stiffed by a bad team/manager, or reached a professional/educational growth ceiling in their role. Since the management structure is extremely flat, these folks leave within 1-3 years. Because of this, the middle of the road analysts stay and end up becoming horrible managers. There are of course some amazing managers, but this is the exception not the rule.

In none of my previous jobs have I seen such an amount of fake-it-till-you-make-it people. There are smart people in the company but you get the feeling that they either leave or there smartness goes to waste. To be successful on the data side you need to be as prolific as you can be, hand over your new ideas and initiatives as quick as possible to someone else and go on to the next thing. Quality and impact is not important. If you doubt me, just ask anyone that has used Bloomberg's treasury management system for instance. If you find yourself constantly picking up the ball where others drop it, you're in a long downward spiral. It will not end in acknowledgement or promotion of any kind. Bloomberg is a stepping stone, it's definitely not an employer you want to stay with for a long , and if you do, there's probably a big chance you're the fake-it-till-you-make-it type.