Internship: Bloomberg v Amazon

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>I was offered a summer internship to both. Both are software development jobs (I am a CS major), and I'm pretty torn between the two. Amazon pays only slightly higher, so salary really is negligible. I am very interested in finance and would like to work in that industry in the future. However, I've read reviews from Glassdoor and found that, in the Financial Software Developer position, interns in reality learn very little if anything about finance. Also, Amazon was rated better in terms of learning experience and future career prospects by most software engineers.</p>

<p>So I have a few questions:</p>

<p>How would financial companies react to a Bloomberg v Amazon internship on my resume? Though I did not actually do anything related to finance on Bloomberg, would Bloomberg be given more weight?</p>

<p>Is the better software learning experience at Amazon worth losing a big name in business/finance on my resume?</p>

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<p>go to amazon. You really learn no finance at bloomberg unless you are in the quant groups that build the analytics models</p>

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<p>Take Amazon…</p>

<p>Why is this even a question? Bloomberg is not high on the software engineer prestige table.</p>

<p>In the long run (Business School), Amazon will look much better than Bloomberg. You can always work at Amazon, go to B-school and jump in finance post MBA.</p>