Bloomberg | New York, NY | Senior Software Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE | VISA
The FX and Commodity Trading system (“FXGO”) within Bloomberg facilitates over $300 billion per day in over-the-counter currency and commodity trading.
Our group develops the infrastructure, libraries, systems and user interfaces that allow this trading to happen.
We are looking for someone with solid C++ and design skills, someone who is focused on building systems both for performance and for ease of support and maintenance.
I would call Bloomberg a financial news company. It's a great company. But I am sympathetic to the view of calling it a tech company because the Bloomberg terminal is an important piece of tech.
Forgetting for a moment whether it is tech or not, is Bloomberg the biggest company founded in New York (in any area) over the last 30 years? My guess would be yes.
With over 75% of their revenue reported to be software revenue (https://talkingbiznews.com/1/report-bloombergs-revenue-hit-1...), I'd call them a tech company. The public perception is focused on the news aspect because that's the most accessible part of their business.
I don't have any other examples at or above their size.
The article says they are pushing for 20TB drives by 2020. That means they are saying 7 years from now we will be using the same technology but the drives will be larger. They are clearly talking about non-SSDs in the article.
SSDs are ok for now but they are still not even close to being reasonably priced. A 1TB SSD is like $650, completely gouged.