You'll be micromanaged to death - Financial Sales and Analytics Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good starting salary, extensive training, great colleagues, free snacks.

Cons

Where do I start... - Clueless team leaders who have no idea of how to manage and motivate people. - Absolutely no scope for creativity, you have to follow very strict guidelines which quite often don't make sense. - Micromanagement - no matter what your job title is and how senior you are, if you are 5 minutes late from your lunch break, you'll get a lot of stick for it. - Working hours are long - you have to be in the office from 8 to 18. Very limited career opportunities - preference always goes to external candidates. Overall, it's a good company to start your career at and it looks good on CV but not that many people stay.

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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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