Vantaggi
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.
Svantaggi
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!