Goldman Sachs Software Engineer/Analyst Developer reviews

Work life balance goes for a toss, unless you are a team lead. The best work does not always come to India. Weekend support to ruin your weekend. The firm has too many local managers who are just not required, since work allocation is mostly done in NY. At GS, it's every man for himself and one can easily be thrown under the bus if not careful. Most people are high on IQ, but low on EQ. Salary is not so good to just ok, and it gets worse if you account for the long hours you will spend in office. Bonus is highly variable, don't count on it. Try to avoid work on their proprietary language (Slang). Visibility is a must for promotions, unless you are willing to wait forever. Underlevels employees when they join.

-Pay is low for a software engineer job but above market for an IT support job, so it's not too bad if you have just a general engineering degree and not know a lot about programming. Don't be fooled into thinking that back office tech pay is going to be much better than other back office positions though. -Culture isn't that great to be honest. Since there isn't any profits/loss to show for performance, you'll encounter poor performing workers who just talks the talk. When things go wrong, it becomes a battle of egos and office politics instead of real honestly and working together. Level of trust is low between different teams because of it. It's very shocking how low the bar can go when simple programming issues gets turned into a magnitude of solving world peace.