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New York / London - Bloomberg http://www.openbloomberg.com/jobs http://www.openbloomberg.com/jobs http://www.bloomberg.com/ux http://www.bloomberg.com/ux Ther

New York / London - Bloomberg http://www.openbloomberg.com/jobs http://www.openbloomberg.com/jobs http://www.bloomberg.com/ux http://www.bloomberg.com/ux There are many jobs open at Bloomberg, but I'm particularly looking for intelligent software engineers and UX professionals to work under the CTO and Infrastructure team in R&D. We do a huge variety of things and we like to run our teams with a startup results-driven feel. We are primary consumers of billions of incoming pieces of data daily and redistribute it to over 180 countries on one of the largest private networks in the world, producing software which provides discovery, analytics, visualization and much more. Contact me if you want to discuss at andrew@ishiboo.com. If you want to chat in person, we are a sustaining sponsor of NYTM and are at all the meetups. I'll be at GothamJS and dotJS later this year. Also, Matt Turck @ Bloomberg Ventures runs the NY Data Business Meetup at our offices every month and I'm almost always there.

tptacek 14y ago
Bloomberg is a big company; you should know that this gig at BB is the real deal. Andrew and his team get absurdly fun projects working with data at a volume and of an importance very few startups ever get to touch. They're like the Google of money. Also, I worked with Andrew at a startup we did in '00 and would easily put him on my top 5 people I'd want to work with again. If you're debating reaching out about this role: DO IT.
- soup10 14y ago
  Good place to work, if being a maintenance programmer for a monopoly with a massive enterprise-quality codebase is your thing. It's _very_ different from working at a start-up, but probably one of the better places to work in the finance world.
  - watmough 14y ago
    I can't say it strongly enough, but the ability to be one of the diminishing few with a high ability to understand, debug and fix, large Visual C++ codebases, will likely provide you with a long career. Not all of it is going to be rewritten in .NET, and every year, more of the C++ guys die or retire, and more people quit for .NET, or something easier. Maintenance may be a dirty word in some circles, but for me it's more like an endless confusing puzzle, and stream of opportunities to make things better.
  - tptacek 14y ago
    I can't speak to the whole of Bloomberg, but Infrastructure R&D is very different from Bloomberg at large. Bloomberg does indeed employ an army of people to write and rewrite financial/enterprise line-of-business applications on their terminal platform. This role isn't that. The difference here is akin to the difference between being an ASP.NET web developer at an insurance firm (boring job) and being on the Windows kernel team (not boring job). One thing you'd really want to understand about Bloomberg: unlike most companies in finance, regardless of how much OCaml or Haskell they're allegedly using, Bloomberg is a technology firm. Enterprise/line-of-business development jobs have a bad reputation in large part because they are hosted by companies that aren't about technology. That's not BB. Yes, BB deals in quotes and market data where Google deals in web pages... but the distinctions start to end not far past that. Andrew can do a better job talking up the role than I can; I just know a couple people who work in his group, have heard the war stories, and it's really pretty awesome.

tptacek 14y ago

Bloomberg is a big company; you should know that this gig at BB is the real deal. Andrew and his team get absurdly fun projects working with data at a volume and of an importance very few startups ever get to touch. They're like the Google of money. Also, I worked with Andrew at a startup we did in '00 and would easily put him on my top 5 people I'd want to work with again. If you're debating reaching out about this role: DO IT.

soup10 14y ago
Good place to work, if being a maintenance programmer for a monopoly with a massive enterprise-quality codebase is your thing. It's _very_ different from working at a start-up, but probably one of the better places to work in the finance world.
- watmough 14y ago
  I can't say it strongly enough, but the ability to be one of the diminishing few with a high ability to understand, debug and fix, large Visual C++ codebases, will likely provide you with a long career. Not all of it is going to be rewritten in .NET, and every year, more of the C++ guys die or retire, and more people quit for .NET, or something easier. Maintenance may be a dirty word in some circles, but for me it's more like an endless confusing puzzle, and stream of opportunities to make things better.
- tptacek 14y ago
  I can't speak to the whole of Bloomberg, but Infrastructure R&D is very different from Bloomberg at large. Bloomberg does indeed employ an army of people to write and rewrite financial/enterprise line-of-business applications on their terminal platform. This role isn't that. The difference here is akin to the difference between being an ASP.NET web developer at an insurance firm (boring job) and being on the Windows kernel team (not boring job). One thing you'd really want to understand about Bloomberg: unlike most companies in finance, regardless of how much OCaml or Haskell they're allegedly using, Bloomberg is a technology firm. Enterprise/line-of-business development jobs have a bad reputation in large part because they are hosted by companies that aren't about technology. That's not BB. Yes, BB deals in quotes and market data where Google deals in web pages... but the distinctions start to end not far past that. Andrew can do a better job talking up the role than I can; I just know a couple people who work in his group, have heard the war stories, and it's really pretty awesome.