Bloomberg VS Microsoft Internship

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mJms54

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mJms54
Feb 23, 2018 18 Comments

Was just offered summer SE internships from both companies. Both companies offer similar compensation and similar (tech-wise) projects.

The main thing I’m trying to figure out is which company will help to excel my future career as a Software Engineer / Tech-Entrepreneur? I enjoy finance, but I don’t know if my future career will necessarily be in it. What is the consensus on the prestige of these two companies relative to each other in the tech-world?

Any input is appreciated. Thank you!

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  • Microsoft. End of discussion :)
    Feb 23, 2018 0
  • Microsoft / Eng
    Elpam

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    Elpam
    I've interned at both, Bloomberg tech is a bit old, but for an internship it's not a bad place to learn some technical things and check out how it's managed to basically own the financial software space (more business than tech but still). Microsoft experience will be very team dependent, you might feel bored by the limits of your project and a bit bogged down by some bureaucratic things depending on where you are.

    Prestige is hard to quantify, and depends on what you do. Bloomberg does have quants, and if this is something for which you have the background/interest for it would be a great opportunity to learn about. Quants can move fairly easily between Bloomberg and various hedge funds and can be much better compensated than SE.

    For purely SE "prestige", I can say anecdotally that looking for jobs/internships became much easier after adding Microsoft to resume.

    Hope this helps, good luck have fun!
    Feb 23, 2018 1
  • This is nuts. Definitely msft. You should not even consider bloomberg.
    Feb 23, 2018 0
  • Bloomberg / Eng
    2A58A

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    2A58A
    Microsoft definitely! In tech industry, Bloomberg is B- while Microsoft is B+
    Feb 24, 2018 0
  • I don't think the team even matters, MSFT is great for summer interns. If you intern at MSFT and somehow want to go to Bloomberg after, it will be super easy anyway. But MSFT really cares about their interns and the events are pretty awesome. It's an experience of its own.
    Feb 24, 2018 0