The glassdoor reviews are quite alarming. Can someone shed honest light on the company culture, engineering culture, work life balance, career growth, churn rate, etc ? #ONE #culture
Thx Omer
Company culture = “ppl from big financial orgs just coming to work in smaller environment” — this is not a “we’re family” vibe. It’s a “ppl do work and execute relentlessly” vibe Work life balance = Lots of new builds going on 24/7. Feels like endurance game on how long can you sustain the pace. If you’re up for it then it can be great place Career growth = ambiguous bc focus is on shipping. “Just do work and don’t worry about the rest” Churn rate / attrition = weird culture on departures. only hear someone has left after the fact. Or if you randomly find their account is deactivated on org chart. Hence not a startup family vibe. Hearing a lot of non eng dept has had almost all legacy employees leave. Various reasons. Some for new opp. Others waited for retention bonus and left. Others bc no pay parity where new hires are making more than legacy employee
Nailed the non-eng orgs. When I submitted notice, my director told me not to tell anyone I was leaving and after a week refused to notify the team at a full team meeting. I was most senior on team and had discussions around pay parity. I was told it'd happen and to "keep doing what I was doing" then given 6% where new hires were at 30-50% higher. Once I submitted notice I was told "salary is solvable", but honestly the time to solve that was before I quit for better pay. I love my peers but new leadership from Goldman are clueless. CTO has sheltered and done right by engineering - as the only one not replaced by Goldman.
How is engineering?
Great talent continues to leave and replaced with friends or friends of friends of the Goldman team. I’m hoping the board steps in to fix some of the issues the company is facing. I think concerns have been voiced consistently but hr hasn’t done anything. The Company doesn’t offer the most competitive pay, compelling problems to solve, or an even remotelly good work culture. I’d only advise people work here if you don’t have another offer.
Avoid this place like the plague. The reviews are pretty spot-on as far as I've seen. The engineering culture is awful: constantly shifting deadlines, regular 10hr workdays, micromanaging. The official announcement Slack channels are dominated by the massive HR organization that either works in a drastically different environment or is knowingly turning a blind eye to how bad things are. I never had recurring nightmares about work until I worked here.
Shitty company with terrible Goldman people. They fire people to get their favorite friends from Goldman and hr don’t give a shit. There is no career growth and they take shortcuts by releasing half baked faulty products to market.
Ex Goldman execs so categorically it'll be toxic and cliquey