Poor pay, confusing environment, bad leadership - werkgeversreview Product Manager bij Bloomberg

1,0
15 feb 2023
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Pluspunten

The offices are widely-heralded as cool places to work, from fish tanks to snacks. As leadership will tell you, they print money every year.

Minpunten

Leadership talks nonstop about how the organization is printing money, but goes out of their way to avoid paying competitive salaries. The primary method the use to get out of this is by putting pay increases into bonuses instead of real salary increases. The end result is working for a year with hopes of the bonus, which isn't guaranteed. The organization is very large and very segmented. They use only proprietary tools, which get in the way of collaboration and make it impossible to find cross-business owners and remove blockers to projects. Leadership organization-wide is by attrition (meaning most leaders are only in their roles because better candidates have left), which has contributed to a significantly white male leadership team. We frequently hear comments from leaders implying women in leadership positions are only promoted to avoid a perceived diversity issue, and not by merit.

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5,0
8 jul 2026
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Pluspunten

good pay, great team, lots of experience gained

Minpunten

mundane tasks sometimes, can be competitive

4,0
28 jun 2026
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Pluspunten

Opportunities to do lots of work with data and finance to apply knowledge in both programming and Subject-Matter Expertise (SME). Excellent Work-Life Balance (WLB) and extremely welcoming culture. You can reach out to anyone for help or just to talk, and they will get back to you (although management does require more scheduling in advance). Generous compensation (good wage) and benefits, including housing for interns. If you heard the rumors that the Bloomberg Princeton office has a great Bloomberg Pantry (read: company-provided breakfast and lunch), the rumors are true.

Minpunten

Not the place for those looking for cutting-edge AI. The company is not as fast with AI as the company prioritizes reliability and accuracy above all, and much of AI is not at an acceptable threshold for management to be willing to take that risk with financial data (at least in 2026). You may get a project to automate menial processes, which is really cool, but that tends to involve actually doing the menial processes, which feels unproductive. Princeton office is good but New York is considered preferable. Coworkers are not very reachable outside of work hours. Compensation is low in Data compared to Software Engineers.

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