A great company but a terrible role - Financial Sales and Analytics Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
14 Mar 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- great benefits -hours are reasonable - the younger employees are highly motivated and intelligent

Cons

If you have any ability to get a front/middle office role at another firm pursue that. This job is dressed to try and compete with those sorts of jobs but is ultimately just a customer service help desk with very little else to offer (outside of going to sales). - management is made up of people who have been consistently mediocre and reached their position by simply sticking around - top talent is treated poorly and overworked compared to the average - micromanaged to the nth degree - every aspect of the job is measured statistically - management has so much as said that the system is designed for someone to be unable to excel in all aspects of the role. As such compensation is determined by how much your manager likes you instead of your productivity and ability - popularity contest where you are forced to "play the game" with mostly mediocre managers in order to get ahead

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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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