Goldman Sachs Employee Reviews
Out of 131 Goldman Sachs employee reviews, 67% were positive. The remaining 33% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Goldman Sachs improve their work culture. The Finance team, with 88% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Goldman Sachs compared to all other departments at the company. The Engineering team offered the most constructive feedback, with 43% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Good luck with the new job
Customer focus , client driven, caring about employee
Stop running your team into the ground.
Stop hiring narcissists that have no management skills. Dig deeper into the backgrounds of people you put in leadership roles.
Review from Design Dept
Their strategies revolve more around getting themselves promoted than around companie's benefits. They mostly have no clue of what teams under them are actually doing.
Review from Engineering Dept
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Bring pay to market level for all who deserves, not just the favorites
Compensation is not competitive. I would make more money as a server in most restaurants.
Momentary compensation is good, however the leave policies, esp. compared to Europe feel lacking.
all the years i have been working and the increase in salary has been awful, just around 6 % in 3 years. Bonus has been paid unfairly and no equity comp
Firm is behind the curve in compensation compared to our peers as of Q3 2021
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
So many people there just to collect a paycheck, no one loves working there. It
Review from Design Dept
We need better collaboration technology platforms. There is a lot of duplication in terms of effort and some times feel chaotic. Better communication from the Divisional Leadership and better organization of teams will help deliver more
Review from Engineering Dept
They hire the very best but anyone who stays for more than 3 years becomes dire boring and corrupted
Review from Engineering Dept
Take on more ownership on issues
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
There should be more compassion and care shown towards low ranking employees
Better strategy and planning needs to be done
Promote and nurture the people who do good work. Don’t just promote your other white friend
Better assignments. Less pressure from management who actually knows nothing about ground work and expects enormously. Middle management should think more about their team than bonuses
Review from Engineering Dept
2 words. Sweat shop.
Review from Finance Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Get the right people in there to make these decisions
Have a plan or structure and format to follow. Have a team that follows up without being promted.
Review from Design Dept
Lesser number of interviews. People ask similar stuff in multiple interviews, they really need to make their interview process rather centralized
Review from Engineering Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
They are not picking the right managers to run different divisions
No one wants to go to work to deal with politics.
Review from Design Dept
Minimized bonus and salary difference. that will make people specially managers stop thinking in terms of years, management needs to have clear vision.
Review from Engineering Dept
Work can get stuck waiting on other teams, sometimes feel helpless and not able to contribute effectively
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