Goldman Sachs Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Terrible management. The tendency is to fix blame rather than fix problems. There's a lot of paranoia among senior management, with lots of talk about the possibility of 'getting fired'."

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"Great pay here!"

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

"Don't interview here."

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

"Long hours. Lots of stress."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Wish Company would hire more people to equalize work load."

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."

"You'd imagine that a multi billion dollar global company would have some of the basics figured out. Things like; Access to systems, onboarding, training, promotion requirements, project management. You would however be wrong. In a 6 month span of time I will lose access to necessary systems without warning, internal teams do not have any checks and balances on granting access or removing access. Internal oversight teams and HR/WFM teams can take months to respond to basic day to day work requests. Getting access during onboarding has taken months to years for multiple systems. In review for promotion they will advise you are exemplary and setting the bar for your peers but deny you promotion, in waiting for a discussion on next steps meetings will be pushed out indefinitely leaving tenured employees in the dark on what to do to meet requirements they have already been advised they meet. Compensation has no concern with getting tenured people the money they deserve, resulting in those tenured employees receiving 20% - 50% less than new hires who are lower title. They do the standard run around of "you shouldn't be discussing compensation" as the response when these concerns are escalated. The buildings are these empty desolate offices that instill a sense of deep depression and hollowness and they are desperately struggling to force everyone into these cages to work in misery surrounded by distraction and full of hollow pointless meetings. The internal organization is designed entirely around giving 1 or 2 people dozens of responsibilities that create roadblocks for thousands of employees and does nothing to hold those select individual responsible for actually doing their job. As an example of a "good business model" its no wonder the economy constantly on the verge of a recession. Terrifying to see this rated as world class frontrunner."

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"Big Name. Feels good to work for a top Wall Street Company. In the Midwest."

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

"Just be confident. Like I said, you do not have to be a finance grad to get it. It's just how confident you are. Do not be intimidated by tough questions, at least not in the Salt Lake office. Once you get in you'll realize that people around you are as experienced as our co-workers in NY and London."

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

"No work life balance. A lot depends on who you know, not how good you do your jobs. Utah is an operations based site. It's a lot of repetitive work. You do not have to be SMART to get into the Salt Lake Office."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look for quality people, not just Mormons."

"Worst years of my life!"

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"The pay is great."

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

"Too much politics. You don't kiss rear, you don't get anywhere."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Consider being human!"

"Good company to work with."

"A good place to work."

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"The assisgnment that I worked on. The people."

"Best place to work for."

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"I love the diversity, their foundation for success and their flexibility with personal family matters. They're very family oriented and a great place to work for."

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

"It's a great place to be. Managers are great, they work well with each other, and they really care about your well being."

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

"Nothing at all."

"Good pay, good office space, great cafeteria, great views, unstable employment prospect, experience most rudeness ever in this office however, from a female colleague, when I brought it to the attention of Axiom I was let go. Told the project was ending for budgetary concerns."

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"Good pay, good office, clean, great cafeteria, nice views, one of my bosses, one of my associate attorneys, location, opportunities to make more money if I stayed on."

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

"Know that you can do it, some of the people that work there don't fit in with GSs reputation for exceptionalism."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give contract attorneys more time to prove themselves, little can be gleaned from a professional's skills in a few weeks."

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"It will be great opportunity to work again."

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

"I am fine with Corp2Corp."

"Goldman Sachs is an amazing firm and I was honored to have worked there."

What do you like about working at Goldman Sachs?

"They encouraged you to think outside the box and gave you the opportunity to explore those ideas. One would work long hours but the company understood work life balance as well. They offered training programs as well as encouraged you to volunteer."

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

"Good Luck- it's a great place to work if you can get past the 10 -15 interviews. :-)"

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

"I did not like the fact that I was released from my position."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Continue to encourage development."

"The company was a great place to work."