OK place short term, do not commit yourself though - Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
28 Jan 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay Good benefits Nice office and desk Free food and drinks Looks good on your resume

Cons

If you get bullied and you complain it is YOU that will be written up or fired. If you get a good team you will have a lot of fun, if not you will hate it. Often, your team leader is inexperienced and will see you as a threat. Incredibly long hours , party due the archaic technology. The programmer gets the blame and the manager takes the credit. Never, ever, ever complain to HR. Once you have a target on your head you will be forced out. You will see this happening to others.

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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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