Good Company with Bad Middle Management - Software Developer Goldman Sachs Employee Review

3.0
Apr 2, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

You'll have the opportunity to work with other smart, hardworking colleagues. The problems you'll work on are interesting and challenging. There's a culture of excellence and overall delivering solid technical solutions to problems that require high scalability.

Cons

Some managers are pretty toxic and negative. Your overall experience here will be largely driven by your team, and office politics can play a large role too. Some teams seem great to work on though. With the team I'm on, our manager will focus on assigning blame instead of trying to work collaboratively. It brings down the morale of the team, leading to our team having low productivity, and continuing in a negative feedback loop where the manager blames everyone for not delivering things in a certain way or meeting their unrealistic expectations - even when working 60-80+ hours every week.

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5.0
Jun 2, 2026
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Pros

amazing experience, everyone was very kind and supportive.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Being able to communicate with sales & trading

Cons

Not being able to put your point forward, if you are a contract, you always remain an outsider

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