bloomberg has some great teams though. i had lunch with the bond pool team about 5 years ago, and oh my gd they were good. plus the snack floor is awesome in the main office.
I loved most of my time working at Bloomberg. Super smart people, a very engineering-centric culture. The politics, however, were very different from the west-coast companies I worked at before, though. You might not think that there are much politics where you work, but that just means you are so familiar with the politics that you conform to them without even thinking about it.
But every organization has its sacred cows, and no matter where you work, if you happen to get yourself into a situation where in order for you to be right, your bosses have to be wrong, it's game over.
Yeah I definitely agree that they’re doing some great engineering work in the company.
It’s a strange place because it’s fully owned by Mike Bloomberg without any board or other group of shareholders that oversees his decisions. There is a “board” equivalent but they report to him. It’s great in someways like how they’re able to spend so much of their profits on philanthropy but leads to a lot of quirks.
