Just. Don't. - Associate Recruiter Goldman Sachs Employee Review

2.0
Jan 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits, and 20-35 days of PTO depending on your level. 72 hrs of paid sick time off, and 10 paid holidays. That's about it.

Cons

1) 5 days a week in-office (don't let them fool you), and if you have to be off desk, or on PTO, it's culture to put WHY YOU'RE ON PTO on the cal invite! Legit. People will put Name - OOO (in parenthesis, the reason they're on PTO) 2) Office culture is awful, and leadership is cold and uncaring. It's a very cliquey culture, too. People talk trash about everyone behind their backs but act nice to your face. Managers have their favorites, which they make very obvious; if you're not on their list you will feel it. Most management sits in NY, so they have VPs in other offices reporting on your whereabouts and how you're doing on the team. 3) Not actual recruiting - there are a lot of administrative responsibilities. You will be on more projects than actual recruiting. They love their data and you have to pull a ton of reports all the time. I could go on...

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Pros

You’ll get to work with the latest technologies depending on the team you’re in and also have a decent work-life balance. They give you a good amount of vacation days and let you use them whenever you want. You get to work with people who are good and smart and barely hear of any bad people who make your life hard. Taking internal mobility to other teams would also be super easy out here and they encourage it.

Cons

The pay increases are very bad. As you get promoted and grow, your pay will only increase about 3-5% no matter how good your performance is and you’ll feel like you’re barely beating inflation if you’re lucky. Your pay will be massively under the market for your role. Not to mention, there’s a huge risk of layoffs and it happens twice a year. You’ll end up being a part of it if you’re working from home a lot or express your dissatisfaction with your pay (although they mostly brush it off as a performance or a budget/role issue). The risk you take from the layoffs is not worth the reward you get. If you’re taking this job and reading this review, just consider this job as a stone you can step on while looking for another job to switch to

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