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Bloomberg's offices are, depending on who you ask, either fantastic or terrible. Yes, they've got a bunch of art and screens everywhere (including a curved esc
by JimmyL 17y ago
Bloomberg's offices are, depending on who you ask, either fantastic or terrible.
Yes, they've got a bunch of art and screens everywhere (including a curved escalator, which I had never seen before I went there). Yes, there are some great free snacks. Yes, there is some nice public art, and a decent corporate dining room.
On the other hand, it's still somewhat of a sweatshop. The whole office is open plan - the highest dividers between workstations rise about seven inches above desk-level and louder than they describe it. The whole building is covered in monitors that display, in real-time, information about how terminal sales are going. When you pull up an employee's internal profile page (which is accessible to anyone within the company), it lists what time you badged in and out for the past week.
- ig1 17y agoThe layout of the office isn't significantly different to what you'll find at any modern investment bank, open plan offices are the norm in the industry. So much so that when they filmed the movie "A Good Year" the scenes of a trading floor were actually filmed in a Bloomberg office rather than at a bank.
- elblanco 17y agoI remember stepping into part of a fountain that looked like an ultra-glossy floor next to some green plastic stairs the first time I was in a Bloomberg office. The visual and aural clutter there was remarkable.