Worst - Senior Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

1.0
18 Oct 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very few pros working at this company. If you're lucky and work your ass off, and keep your head down and don't voice your opinions, then maybe you'll get a competitive salary.

Cons

- Their product is bad - On the inside, their system is orders of magnitute worse than their mediocre product - They're overly political. For example, they set deadlines for major projects to be the department head's birthday. New features are decided at the whim of upper management, not because they would improve the product or have a chance at succeding. - All the good engineers leave as soon as they realize what shithole they've trapped themselves in. You have to work with college gradas who don't know any better and those too lazy and too scared to leave.

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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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