The worst - Anonymous employee Goldman Sachs Employee Review

1.0
17 Mar 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Time off adds up quickly and good amount of sick days. You'll need to take them all because between the favoritism, management having no clue to what you're doing, to the mind numbing work, to the amount of people who kiss butt and are awful at their jobs, but are favorites its awful.

Cons

Management consistently lies to your face and tears you like an idiot child. They lie about big and small things and the management who are the true idiots can't keep their stories straight so when got talk to a co worker you have a different version. They recently fired someone who worked their for around 25 years who made 6 figures. They told half the people she was fired the other half she left. She had like 35 days off a year and a huge severance package and supplied health insurance for her family but yeah she quit. In addition to the above and what's in the pros, All benefits besides time off is awful. Pay is below the industry. Office is always cold, yes it's cold in the winter and cold in the summer.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
23 Feb 2026
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Pros

You’ll get to work with the latest technologies depending on the team you’re in and also have a decent work-life balance. They give you a good amount of vacation days and let you use them whenever you want. You get to work with people who are good and smart and barely hear of any bad people who make your life hard. Taking internal mobility to other teams would also be super easy out here and they encourage it.

Cons

The pay increases are very bad. As you get promoted and grow, your pay will only increase about 3-5% no matter how good your performance is and you’ll feel like you’re barely beating inflation if you’re lucky. Your pay will be massively under the market for your role. Not to mention, there’s a huge risk of layoffs and it happens twice a year. You’ll end up being a part of it if you’re working from home a lot or express your dissatisfaction with your pay (although they mostly brush it off as a performance or a budget/role issue). The risk you take from the layoffs is not worth the reward you get. If you’re taking this job and reading this review, just consider this job as a stone you can step on while looking for another job to switch to

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