There's a lot to learn, but a broken development process. - Senior Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
Nov 21, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

You will work with very smart people, several of which are on the C++ standards library committee. The free food is good. The 731 Lexington office's location is an easy commute from just about anywhere.

Cons

Development is panic or bugfix driven, so you won't get time to plan or improve. Have that development style for 30 years, and this is the root cause of the other cons: There is no project management to speak of. The build process is time consuming and not automated. The technology is old. You can download freely available libraries/tools that are better than what's mandated internally.

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Free food, good salary, incredible Pro Bono opportunities

Cons

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Pros

Only a five-hour-per-week time commitment, which is very manageable with my class schedule. Bloomberg provides ideas for challenges and activities to host at my school, so I would not have to come up with everything from scratch. There is flexibility to choose when I table and to tailor the role around my schedule.

Cons

The budget for the program is tight, which is frustrating because advertising to law students is exactly how Bloomberg Law builds a dedicated user base. In my opinion, whoever makes the budget is not seeing the bigger vision. A lot of attorneys may not like Bloomberg Law, use it regularly, or ask their firms to purchase a subscription simply because they were never meaningfully exposed to it in law school. This is exactly why Lexis has taken over in such a big way: its presence and budget are felt at law schools across the country. If Bloomberg wants future attorneys to become loyal users, it needs to invest more seriously in reaching students while they are still learning which legal research platforms they prefer.

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