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New York / London - Bloomberg http://jobs.bloomberg.com/ http://jobs.bloomberg.com/ http://www.bloomberg.com/ux http://www.bloomberg.com/ux There are many job

New York / London - Bloomberg http://jobs.bloomberg.com/ http://jobs.bloomberg.com/ 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. and we'll have a few people at JSConf in May.

alexchamberlain 14y ago
I must say the entry level training is also fantastic and the internships good fun, whilst (of course) challenging.
- dhammack 14y ago
  Awesome, looking forward to interning this summer.
  - alexchamberlain 14y ago
    London or New York?
    - dhammack 14y ago
      New York.
  - Nav_Panel 14y ago
    As am I, also in the New York office :)
- apaprocki 14y ago
  Glad to hear you had a good time. For anyone wondering, I think internship app deadline has passed already for this summer -- I'll mention internships as well when the fall season rolls around.
  - sbuccini 14y ago
    Ah shucks. If you find anything to the contrary, I'd love to hear from you! If not, next summer it shall be.
lifeisstillgood 14y ago
What is the approach to remote working (becoming a meme here !) PS That's quite an "interesting" photo at ishiboo.com
- b6 14y ago
  ishiboo.com is famous hacker Danny Dulai (aka nirva)'s domain. Seems like he does whatever he wants. So the picture doesn't reflect on that post.
  - lifeisstillgood 14y ago
    ok. Just struck me as an odd choice when posting for a seemingly suit and shirt place like Bloomberg.
    - apaprocki 14y ago
      I just choose to interact with the net using my personal address :) As for attire, everyone wears whatever they want -- probably just like any other company posting here.
      - lifeisstillgood 14y ago
        I am officially retiring from this conversation :-) I did not mean to imply any improprietary, just a passing glance at a site, and a middle aged man who should know the by-ways of the net better (me). Sounds like a fun fire-hose to get to work with - enjoy. (Actually I would be interested in getting a flavour of the sizes of data sets, time constraints you work under, tools of choice (trading off performance and reliability) - real time massive data is where most of us are heading, would be interesting to hear letters back from Mason and Dixon)
    - dimva 14y ago
      Haha, Bloomberg is not a suit and shirt place! When I worked there, I wore sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt. Lots of other people (including my manager's manager) did the same. There was also a guy dressed like a heavy metal rocker who was in meetings with guys in suits all the time. Also, Danny Dulai worked for Bloomberg.
yeureka 14y ago
Hi, has the 45 hour per week rule been changed?
- apaprocki 14y ago
  I've been here at BB a long time and I can tell you that there has never been any rule dictating a 45 hour work week. Where did you hear that from?
  - yeureka 14y ago
    During an interview at the London office I asked about working hours and I was told you can pick from either 8:00 to 18:00 or 9:00 to 19:00. I was also told that my money making side projects would not be allowed or would have to be "approved". The people who interviewed me were really nice though and they did not wear a suit.
  - TomC7 14y ago
    I worked in the London office as an intern, 45 hours a week was definitely the standard!.I'm fairly certain some of the teams weren't strict on it or even went with 40 hour weeks, but it's definitely 45 on the contract! Having said that, it's a great place and the internship was good fun
nimstr 14y ago
Working as a software engineer at a non-tech company would be a refreshing change of pace for a lot of people in tech. Could you elaborate a bit more on what exactly an engineer would do on a daily basis and what the size of the team currently is?
- apaprocki 14y ago
  We are a tech company. We just don't look like one :) Tom (tptacek) always accuses me of not selling enough, so I'll give it a try. Your question is actually very open-ended. We have roughly 4,000 R&D employees, so you can imagine the work is very diverse across the company. Teams are roughly 4-8 people at the lowest level and group up into larger organizations organized by product type (equities, fixed income, etc.). I happen to work on infrastructure for the Professional service (aka Terminal). Our team has very little interaction with anything finance related and most of our work is related to evolving the entire platform forward and making forward-looking changes. Back in 2005, we converted all of our higher-level "app" development to server-side JS (custom, Spidermonkey based) and now run probably the largest server-side JS stack in the world (~20MM LOC). We migrated a lot of our GUI toolkit to be scripted as well (LUA this time) to allow us to more easily evolve it. And now we're evolving it, embedding WebKit and pushing bugfixes and feature enhancements to do what we need (our fork is on GH). We're helping define and implement CSS3 Grid spec and help implement ES6 generators among other things. We built and run a third-party app store within the Terminal. Over the past decade we've rebuilt the C++ foundation of the company from the ground up, starting with our own STL implementation using the Lakos allocator model (Lakos and a few other C++ committee members work here). We have a huge wealth of awesome C++ libraries that we started open-sourcing and will continue to add more layers as time goes by. All of what I mentioned is stuff done by the infrastructure team, and we're a tiny percentage of the overall R&D population. Other teams get to do fun stuff as well. The mortgage team ported long-running ABS OAS calculations from Linux farms to GPU clusters and wrote a Python based cash flow engine from the ground up, potentially helping define the SEC's Python-files-must-be-included rules. We run a worldwide network with somewhere around 35,000 circuits in 180+ countries. We ingest anywhere from 45-60 billion "ticks" daily aggregate from feeds in all of these countries. We normalize, scrub, and then re-distribute all this data to customers in all of those countries in an efficient manner. The Terminal provides analytic and visualization tools to work with market data, as well as the same tools to work with news and alerts. On the news side, we ingest over 80,000 news feeds (e.g. WSJ would be one "feed") from around the world and do the same kind of processing, applying ML for sentiment and topic classification, etc. We also design our own hardware in-house -- everything from keyboards and monitors, to custom ASICs for authentication/subscription tokens and PCIe hardware security modules for our certificate infrastructure. The web side (bloomberg.com, businessweek.com, BGOV, BLAW, Black, etc) uses mostly Rails stacks and everything you would expect to find in a web shop. Oh, and we have a TV station, radio station, etc. They innovate too. Bloomberg TV is the first non-OTA channel to be distributed via Aereo, for instance :) We could use a motto like "We do a lot of stuff."

alexchamberlain 14y ago

I must say the entry level training is also fantastic and the internships good fun, whilst (of course) challenging.

dhammack 14y ago
Awesome, looking forward to interning this summer.
- alexchamberlain 14y ago
  London or New York?
  - dhammack 14y ago
    New York.
- Nav_Panel 14y ago
  As am I, also in the New York office :)
apaprocki 14y ago
Glad to hear you had a good time. For anyone wondering, I think internship app deadline has passed already for this summer -- I'll mention internships as well when the fall season rolls around.
- sbuccini 14y ago
  Ah shucks. If you find anything to the contrary, I'd love to hear from you! If not, next summer it shall be.

lifeisstillgood 14y ago

What is the approach to remote working (becoming a meme here !) PS That's quite an "interesting" photo at ishiboo.com

b6 14y ago
ishiboo.com is famous hacker Danny Dulai (aka nirva)'s domain. Seems like he does whatever he wants. So the picture doesn't reflect on that post.
- lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  ok. Just struck me as an odd choice when posting for a seemingly suit and shirt place like Bloomberg.
  - apaprocki 14y ago
    I just choose to interact with the net using my personal address :) As for attire, everyone wears whatever they want -- probably just like any other company posting here.
    - lifeisstillgood 14y ago
      I am officially retiring from this conversation :-) I did not mean to imply any improprietary, just a passing glance at a site, and a middle aged man who should know the by-ways of the net better (me). Sounds like a fun fire-hose to get to work with - enjoy. (Actually I would be interested in getting a flavour of the sizes of data sets, time constraints you work under, tools of choice (trading off performance and reliability) - real time massive data is where most of us are heading, would be interesting to hear letters back from Mason and Dixon)
  - dimva 14y ago
    Haha, Bloomberg is not a suit and shirt place! When I worked there, I wore sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt. Lots of other people (including my manager's manager) did the same. There was also a guy dressed like a heavy metal rocker who was in meetings with guys in suits all the time. Also, Danny Dulai worked for Bloomberg.

yeureka 14y ago

Hi, has the 45 hour per week rule been changed?

apaprocki 14y ago
I've been here at BB a long time and I can tell you that there has never been any rule dictating a 45 hour work week. Where did you hear that from?
- yeureka 14y ago
  During an interview at the London office I asked about working hours and I was told you can pick from either 8:00 to 18:00 or 9:00 to 19:00. I was also told that my money making side projects would not be allowed or would have to be "approved". The people who interviewed me were really nice though and they did not wear a suit.
- TomC7 14y ago
  I worked in the London office as an intern, 45 hours a week was definitely the standard!.I'm fairly certain some of the teams weren't strict on it or even went with 40 hour weeks, but it's definitely 45 on the contract! Having said that, it's a great place and the internship was good fun

nimstr 14y ago

Working as a software engineer at a non-tech company would be a refreshing change of pace for a lot of people in tech. Could you elaborate a bit more on what exactly an engineer would do on a daily basis and what the size of the team currently is?

apaprocki 14y ago
We are a tech company. We just don't look like one :) Tom (tptacek) always accuses me of not selling enough, so I'll give it a try. Your question is actually very open-ended. We have roughly 4,000 R&D employees, so you can imagine the work is very diverse across the company. Teams are roughly 4-8 people at the lowest level and group up into larger organizations organized by product type (equities, fixed income, etc.). I happen to work on infrastructure for the Professional service (aka Terminal). Our team has very little interaction with anything finance related and most of our work is related to evolving the entire platform forward and making forward-looking changes. Back in 2005, we converted all of our higher-level "app" development to server-side JS (custom, Spidermonkey based) and now run probably the largest server-side JS stack in the world (~20MM LOC). We migrated a lot of our GUI toolkit to be scripted as well (LUA this time) to allow us to more easily evolve it. And now we're evolving it, embedding WebKit and pushing bugfixes and feature enhancements to do what we need (our fork is on GH). We're helping define and implement CSS3 Grid spec and help implement ES6 generators among other things. We built and run a third-party app store within the Terminal. Over the past decade we've rebuilt the C++ foundation of the company from the ground up, starting with our own STL implementation using the Lakos allocator model (Lakos and a few other C++ committee members work here). We have a huge wealth of awesome C++ libraries that we started open-sourcing and will continue to add more layers as time goes by. All of what I mentioned is stuff done by the infrastructure team, and we're a tiny percentage of the overall R&D population. Other teams get to do fun stuff as well. The mortgage team ported long-running ABS OAS calculations from Linux farms to GPU clusters and wrote a Python based cash flow engine from the ground up, potentially helping define the SEC's Python-files-must-be-included rules. We run a worldwide network with somewhere around 35,000 circuits in 180+ countries. We ingest anywhere from 45-60 billion "ticks" daily aggregate from feeds in all of these countries. We normalize, scrub, and then re-distribute all this data to customers in all of those countries in an efficient manner. The Terminal provides analytic and visualization tools to work with market data, as well as the same tools to work with news and alerts. On the news side, we ingest over 80,000 news feeds (e.g. WSJ would be one "feed") from around the world and do the same kind of processing, applying ML for sentiment and topic classification, etc. We also design our own hardware in-house -- everything from keyboards and monitors, to custom ASICs for authentication/subscription tokens and PCIe hardware security modules for our certificate infrastructure. The web side (bloomberg.com, businessweek.com, BGOV, BLAW, Black, etc) uses mostly Rails stacks and everything you would expect to find in a web shop. Oh, and we have a TV station, radio station, etc. They innovate too. Bloomberg TV is the first non-OTA channel to be distributed via Aereo, for instance :) We could use a motto like "We do a lot of stuff."