Avoid like the plague - Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

1.0
Apr 23, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

*Very smart people to work with and learn from *Free snacks and exhibition tickets *Sponsor (well depending on performence) masters courses.

Cons

*The mangement treat people like crap *Progress within the company depends on talking the talk rather than walking the walk *Very long hours(you will be called at funny hours to come and fix a Fortran bug) *The tools are shocking *Dead wood managers who ve been in the company since day one and will do absolutly anything to safeguard their position as they know they re not employable anywhere else.

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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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