Goldman Sachs reviews

There might be a chance that you end up working in a team that's good, but it's far more likely that you will end up working in a team supporting decades old technologies, working with tech leaders that have no idea how to build a good tech ecosystem. This can end up wreaking havoc on your professional career as a technologist. You will learn nothing that will carry you forward in your career. At best, you'll end up with a brand name on your resume, but the bureaucracy and politics of this place will destroy your soul.

Work-life balance is hard to achieve here. Face-time is built into the core of the culture, so long days are standard. Working your tail off and having something to show is what is valued at GS. Ten hours is a standard work day in Operations--not eight. If you want/need to work eight hour days, you take a 20% pay cut. Teams are incessantly understaffed. Layoffs happen every year and each team feels the constant pain of losing people who had knowledge, struggling to get through the daily workload, and constantly starting over and training new people. If you haven't had a promotion in a couple years, you are on the chopping block. Technology infrastructure is wildly outdated; in one function, you can use upwards of 40 different applications/web tools. Processes are painfully manual because of old and non-integrated technology.