Great packages, but not a great place to learn - Reporter Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
Jul 3, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits packages. They take care of you. It's a culture that prizes efficiency above all else. It's easy to get postings abroad. They're the dominant player in the financial data market.

Cons

There is little flexibility in terms of people's roles. The company has grown so fast that it is no longer as entrepreneurial as it used to be. It is incrementally innovative but never fundamentally innovative. The culture seems to prize the amount of hours employees spend at the terminal as opposed to the quality or originality of ideas they contribute. Loyalty is also paramount.

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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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