Bloomberg reviews

(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.

Technology can be very stale. A lot of teams are stuck in the mud with no clear path to escaping their tech debt. The training class is a drag. A lot of employees feel like they've checked out and don't have much interest in learning new things so it can be difficult to move things along.