Has its best days behind it - Anonymous employee Goldman Sachs Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Lots of learning resources for soft and hard skills - Remainder of the partnership culture - 4 weeks paternity leave

Cons

- Shrinking tech division, in wind-down status for a few years and not stable yet - Big gap between ambitious claim of "being a tech company" and keeping tech as underresourced, badly managed underdog. - The same dysfunctional review system of security division for technologists, without its objective measures of profit, gives completely free hand to the managers for their subjective marking of people, nepotism, and marginalising rebels (who are sometimes rightful in the rebellion against risky, wasteful and showy decision). No reflection of the main tech initiatives with objective measures (e.g. test maturity, code quality, reducing technical debt) in the reviews. - as a result of latter case, a brain drain happened in front-office tech. If you are a technical person avoid that part of GS tech at all cost

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