Bloomberg Industry Group Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Pros

-A pantry with free snacks, fruit, drinks, and a fancy espresso machine -More diverse than other corporate offices (but not in management, see cons) -Name recognition if you work on the BLAW/BTAX products in the legal industry -Good place to start if you want an alt-law career--but do not plan on staying here for an extended period of time if you don't want your career to basically be over

Cons

-No one competent stays here long term. They know that the likelihood of getting promoted at a MARKET SALARY is nearly impossible and leave for better opportunities. This is basically the gateway to fed jobs for some law school grads/lawyers who are transitioning out of private practice. -Upper management has no understanding of the products its editors create and maintain. Therefore, their decisions in what resources to provide and to what groups don't make sense. They will never compete with Westlaw and Lexis for this reason. -Some editorial groups are severely understaffed and management refuses to add positions. Not hiring for certain positions with no clear reason why, so most people are underpaid and working ten times harder while not being allowed to work OT and no support because they aren't hiring anyone. Also a reason why they will never compete with Westlaw or Lexis. -Wish washy when it comes to policies. Some employees are allowed to work remotely full time (from as close as 1-2 hours away or as far as many states away) and others must come into the office each day and aren't allowed to work remotely at all (and not for any good reason like they need to be in the office to do their job). As a legal tech company promoting AI, etc. it's really odd that they would step back from offering flexible work options for employees when the technology is there and there isn't a business reason for it. Some remote employees do a significant less amount of work and clearly are just baggage but unclear why they don't just get rid of those instead of not giving the incentive of flex work to hard working employees. -Promotions are happening more but they are for peanuts. You get "promoted" and the difference in salary bump is laughable. Not competitive. More than nonprofit sector, but not in competition with most other jobs in the area. -If you are young and work hard, you will be making less money than someone who has been there a long time and does nothing and yet, no one has ever written them up or fired them. Not sure if that has to do with managers being afraid of the union (which to be honest is not very strong/has very low membership so don't think that is it) or if maybe they just are too lazy to write up an employee and do not want to bother. -It's common to see a new manager making less money than their employees that are reporting to them which I haven't seen in any other company before. -Upper management has a good amount of women but that is it as far as diversity goes. Just take a look at the exec. page with photos. -There are a lot of very very incompetent/lazy managers. New managers are a lot more enthusiastic/competent. But there still remains managers that they just couldn't fire I guess in the last round of "reorgs" in Oct. but that really should have been. There are managers who barely show up at the office, don't know what their employees are working on, or just flat out don't understand the subject matter their own employees are covering. There are still some non-JD managers managing a legal content group....not sure how that works?

Pros

- work life balance is good

Cons

- upper management is not as supportive as pre-merger

Pros

Good pay, great benefits. Pension, if you have been there long enough. Crystal city is a great place to work, that is if you can get out of the building long enough to get something to eat.

Cons

Abusive work environment. Work life balance non existent. Capricious upper management. Particular abuse for parents. This is not a place to work if you have children and wish to see them other than after they are asleep at night. Lack of trust in the employees by the company. You must swipe your ID to get in and out of the building. Open workplace environment. I hope you like disruptions; you are going to get a lot of them. It’s much like working on a metro platform.

Pros

The company provide excellent benefits due to the presence of a strong union. The union presence also provides for a grievance procedure to work out most management-employee conflicts. Employees have tremendous loyalty and work ethic. The news and reference products produce are the best in the field due to the company placing high value on accuracy and balanced reporting. The infusion of Bloomberg's technology investments is resulting in innovative web products that assure strong growth in the coming years.

Cons

The downside of Bloomberg buying BNA is the infection of a cut-throat culture in upper management that views long-term experienced employees as an expense and not an asset. A harsh, punitive, sink-or-swim attitude is beginning to take hold, especially in the HR processes, which seem to favor new, young employees. Top leadership in the parent company seems to be working to break the union.