Jerk Culture - Senior Product Manager Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
Apr 2, 2019
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Pros

Amazing buildings, smart people, global reach, great added benefits, and philanthropic investment.

Cons

Real lack of trust at all levels and a jerk culture that's rewarded from the top. No learning/fail-fast mindset, get ready to be yelled at and called a 'f*#$ing idiot' if something in your area is going in the wrong direction and for your manager to take credit when things are going well. No diversity at the top, probably due to the lack of flexibility. People not treated like human beings (e.g. team that doesn't say hi or bye, useless meeting culture where meetings mean you're always busy a.k.a. important). Incentives do not drive collaboration or supportive teams - very siloed and hard to move things forward. All that said, culture can vary a lot by department or even team (e.g. data, eng, etc), so do your research.

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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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