Great place for new grad - Financial Software Engineer Bloomberg Employee Review

4.0
Apr 5, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

3 months training session basically teach you everything you need in the company Then reversed career fair let you choose the team you wanna join. Two days team shadowing will allow you to get in touch with potential future team members Great work life balance. Personally always 9 to 5 Great benefits, medical insurance is awesome

Cons

Code base is old. C++ is not so popular among other company. Code architecture is very complex and hard to understand. No official documents for internal tools

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance and generous company benefits

Cons

Upside in bonus was capped low. People with wall street experiences are highly valued than those who are with the firm longer

5.0
May 31, 2026
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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