Goldman Sachs reviews

1. They terminate employee suddenly without alert / pre-discussion at all and chase employee out directly without letting employee speaks to HR and Agent. 2. They shorten employee termination notice period to 1 week only, not follow employment contract which is at least 1 month notice period. 3. Cannot make mistake at all and cannot ask too much question. They will criticize employee no effort at all. 4. Always get escalated and complained by other departments although doing proper work. Manager will always blame as employee's fault instead of protect/side employee from other department's complaints. 5. They pretend to have good EQ but always sarcastic, backstab and judge each other. 6. No flexibility at all. Cannot come office late at all and lunch must one hour strictly. 7. Cannot go toilet and pantry frequently. They will question why missing in action? 8. Very politic among managers and colleagues. They never lunch together with each other as a team. 9. No work life balance and always OT. 10. They are very demanding and put high expectation on temporary/contract staff for short term maternity cover only. 11. They are very micro manage and controlling. Employee must sit beside direct Manager so can monitor every movement of employee. 12. Not allow new employee to start work earlier just because one of them taking annual leave. 13. Worst job ever!

I came into the firm as an experienced hire through a diversity hiring program. Within my first month a VP on my team told me I was only hired so management could get a “tax break”. I should have walked away at that point but I was determined to stick it out. Of the 4 or 5 people who originally brought me in to the firm, all were either fired or left in outrage before I even started - this should have been another red flag (because the firm has a massive turnover problem). I felt that management consistently lied to me about a variety of things mostly pertaining to advancement. They would also talk pretty openly about horrible things they had done to past employees and laugh about it. Maybe these things could have been more tolerable if they were the meritocracy that they tout but they weren’t in my opinion. That same VP’s job revolved around technology and he/she didn’t know what a server was (literally asked me in a conversation once “what’s a server”); the difference being he/she was part of the elitist yet incompetent culture that permeates the NYC office. They regularly hire the children of clients and as you can imagine they are usually the kind who NEED their daddy to get them a job because they are otherwise completely unremarkable. I stayed two years until I had to train another VP how to do a new job he/she was assigned and he/she couldn’t competently use excel (same individual would regularly try to humiliate analysts/associates for lack of technical skills until he/she took it a step too far once and was almost fired). Seriously as far as diversity programs go, you can’t bring someone in under the guise of receiving training and then have them train your VPs.