Goldman Sachs reviews

For working in Salt Lake City, it pays well. However, a same-level operations analyst in NYC/Jersey City makes much more. Further, much of your pay is based on performance bonus, which reviews are heavily biased and leaves room for wage discrimination. Immediate management is out-of-touch. Merit rewards no one... if you'd like to succeed, be sure to network well and create the perception of value. Emphasis on "perception". Overtime pay is half-time... but if you work any less than 50 hours/week, you'll yourself in a serious "conversation" with your manager--regardless as to whether you have work left to do. Again, the perception of being a valuable employee, and this includes just working late for the sake of working late, is what matters. But if you still want the job, make sure you play to Goldman's egos, as they like to hear how "big-deal" they are, because they work for a "big-deal" company. There are very few finance roles at GS Salt Lake City... it is a major operations hub for GS.

Long hours, you can work less and make more elsewhere on the street Survives mostly on reputation, which doesn't really apply to tech roles. Development role involved mostly 1st line business support on archaic, proprietary, poorly designed system (stressful) Poor dissemination of tech knowledge/documentation past your initial initiation training. Slang/SecDB is indeed an interesting platform with great ideas, but the tools and UIs are ancient and make those used to more modern development environments wince. Lateral experienced hires take a significant hit as the tech knowledge you can carry in is minimised. Technology is lead mostly out of the Quant area, not IT, leading to poor quality, complicated code.