Do not make the mistake if you're a senior engineer coming from a tech company - Senior Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

1.0
12 Apr 2019
Recommend
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Pros

* Free Snacks * Free Soup * Beautiful Pantry * HealthCare Benefits (BWELL)

Cons

* Old arcane proprietary stack * Micromanagement and so-called 'TLs' who raised from FSD are basically 'dogs' who worked like dogs and now expects you to work like they had done so in the past. They are sycophants and can be very rude and aggressive unlike any other workplaces . (Senior managers condone their behavior as long as they get their jobs done). *You'll be bombarded with emails, meetings and distraction, no place to vent off. * No Privacy, probably the worse desk arrangement for an engineer, perfect non technical traders/product managers. * Tremendous pressure; there is no respite as others have mentioned. If you don't like what you are doing, good luck!

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Cons

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5.0
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Recommend
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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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