Intense with lots of room to learn, no work-life balance - Senior Software Developer Bloomberg Employee Review

2.0
6 Oct 2017
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Pros

They pay a competitive salary and offer great benefits. There is room to learn new technologies & techniques every day. You can enjoy lots of free snacks and drinks.

Cons

There is incessant and never-ending work, with a demand for perfection and timeliness. There is no regard for an employee’s personal time or life, and you are expected to be always on and available to work late on evenings and weekends as a matter of regular course. Managers are trained to provide weekly “feedback” which is brutal, petty, and rehash of any unsubstantiated gossip they may hear about you (so you have the opportunity to disprove it). They pay lip service to agile development - managers never say no to work and developers have to agree to any amount of work thrown at them. Everything is measured, all communications are monitored and video cameras exist everywhere, even in conference rooms. There are no private spaces.

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5.0
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Pros

Good work life balance and generous company benefits

Cons

Upside in bonus was capped low. People with wall street experiences are highly valued than those who are with the firm longer

5.0
31 May 2026
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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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