Horrible Working Environment - Terrible Management - Senior Software Developer Bloomberg Employee Review

1.0
Sep 18, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

$ - The money is good. The benefits are excellent. The perks are wonderful. The bonuses are large. The regular employees are awesome, and fun to work with.

Cons

Management is ineffective at best, and incompetent at worst. The entire company is very much a cult of personality. There is a massive "not invented here" complex. Managers that have risen through the ranks over the last few decades are very stodgy and outdated in their ideas about business and development best practices. I got negative performance reviews for mentoring others as the most senior developer on the team. Management did not understand the problem space at all - web development - and this made it very difficult to have non-stressful conversations with them. Some teams at Bloomberg are better than others, mine was generally recognized as the worst. The entire team went to senior management with complaints about the problems with out direct manager, but nothing was ever done.

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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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