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Working at Goldman Sachs in New York City, NY: 21 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in New York City, NY Area

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On average, employees in New York City, NY at Goldman Sachs give their company a 3.8 rating out of 5.0 based on 21, whereas overall Average Rating of Goldman Sachs is 4.0 out of 5.0 based on 126 Goldman Sachs Review Ratings. The happiest Goldman Sachs employees in New York City, NY are VP of Technologies submitting an average rating of 5.0 and QA Analysts with a rating of 4.7.

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4.0
Average Rating
(based on 97 Goldman Sachs Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.8
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.3
Person You Work For
4.2
Rewards You Receive
4.0
Support You Get
4.1
Way You Work
4.0
Work Setting
4.1
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"Great place to work, with good compensation. They believe in putting all benefits in your pay. Do well in terms of being a firm with an open door policy. Surrounded by great bright people."
Posted 10 years ago in Jersey City, NJ

Working at Goldman Sachs in New York City, NY: 21 Employee Reviews

Trader

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"International, high profile, reputation, top notch, global, leader, rewarding, etc."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No real piece of advice, good firm, top one in its industry, but industry as a whole probably not the best bet for the next few decades."

What don't you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"Rigid, retrograde, stressful, pretentious, belongs in the past, not innovative anymore."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Progressist, open, social media friendly, press friendly, laid back, relaxed, transparent."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Creative Services Specialist

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"Building has medical center, gym, cafeteria, physical rehab center & lactation rooms."

What don't you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"Big brother!"

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

4.0
Goldman Sachs (126)

4.6 Highest Rated in this Industry is Home Finance of America (17)
2.2 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Cottonwood Financial (5)
3.8 Average of All Companies in this Industry (13,617)
Analyst
Work Setting 3 / 5 Company Culture 2 / 5
Vice President

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"I like being busy and can handle pressure but I have been doing this for 10 years."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you are smart and you work hard you will make it."

What don't you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"The hours are long and the stress is high. Too many people have been laid off and teams are too small. I have a long commute and a young child who I rarely see."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would not do anything different, this is a great company."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Goldman Sachs Employee
Company Culture 2 / 5
Goldman Sachs Employee

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"High-energy team culture is very good. Very smart people. Get to learn a lot of new stuff."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Get prepared to work lots of hours. You need to be very strong in your field of work and exhibit the passion to work there."

What don't you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"Hard to get work-life balance. Cut-throat environment. Difficult to get a social life."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Enforce work-life balance in the culture. I would hire more people because there is always shortage of resources."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Goldman Sachs Employee

"Great place to work! However internal advancement is limited, and there is little chance for mobility as an assistant."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
VP of Technology

"I have worked at GS for over 20 years - great place to work and have a career."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Goldman Sachs Employee

"Goldman is surrounded by talented people and challenging opportunities, but the ability to advance is getting harder and harder as they consolidate much of the technology business."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 2 / 5
Senior Software Lead

"Worked with very smart people and learned a lot of new software concepts/technologies."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
QA Analyst

"I was hired for six months in June 2013. I have been working until now. Great work environment. After working in a few days I became friend of my developer. Sometimes I had to explain requirement & test step to my other QA team player. Everyone was cooperative & loves to discus with new requirement."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Computer Operations Technician

"My review was exceptionally good. My manager reviewed my performance, added comments on achievement, work ethic, always available, lots of team afford, Lots of diversity."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Goldman Sachs Employee

"i have worked for goldman sachs for some time"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Goldman Sachs Employee

"Great place to work with talented and smart people on mutually aligned interests and projects"

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 4 / 5
Engineering Analyst

"This is a great company to work at."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
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