Your experience will vary wildly with the team - Financial Software Developer Bloomberg Employee Review

4.0
Nov 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the newer teams are working on really cool stuff. If you get into one of these teams, you will have lots of fun. The culture is laidback; no one cares if you walk in at 11 am unlike some of the older teams where the manager will take you aside and lecture you if you come at 9:35 instead of 9:30. Don't join the older teams. You'll work on the same thing for your entire time, sometimes not even pushing any code to production for months on end, ending up in the project being cancelled. Some of these notorious teams are: Any of the "yellow key" groups such as Equities and Mortgages, some of the realtime teams such as BPIPE, Ticker Plant, Data License. The cool teams are Software Infrastructure, and some foundational application teams.

Cons

Lots of cliques, particularly in the older teams. Avoid the older teams.

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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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