Tech to Goldman Sachs
What are your thoughts on moving from Amazon to Goldman Sachs? -- would that be a dumb move overall or what would the biggest benefits be? I've been working a year at my current workplace, but I find it a bit boring...wondering if changing industries/positions might be more interesting. I would be working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs vs engineer at Amazon. Any others make a transition like this and have opinions?
I loved GS. Give it a shot. Loads of ex-FAANG there.
Avoid Slang like the plague, also probably a good idea to avoid any teams that aren't trade execution systems (this is a marketable skill to higher paying prop trading shops) or Marquee (everyone is over leveled here so the pay can compete with big tech).
When I worked at Amazon I worked with a lot of stressed weirdos. Nice knowledgeable people but I interviewed at Goldman and it was nice seeing personable people and some decent tooling like gitlab being used. Unless you can get VP pay isn't competitive and they're stupidly mum on how much bonuses will be. So I didn't want to move to a more expensive city to less pay so I said no even though I enjoyed the process and team.
Outside of vp level job,no the salary isn't great,specially outside of trading or Marcus
If not Marcus or marquee, don’t join gs. Even in Marcus or marquee i would say it’s a sub team/manager dependent
What is the hierarchy (how are level defined in software engineering) in GS?
Managing Director (L6) Vice President (L5) Associate (L4) Analyst (L3) Also note, Analyst -> Associate usually requires an MBA. A2A (Analyst to Associate) promote is rare but not unheard of.
Lol I interviewed with Marquee once and they were the most stressed type A assholes I have ever encountered in an interview setting. Made Amazon look like Microsoft. But I don't doubt they're doing cool stuff and maybe my interviewers woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
What's your TC and what's being offered? Work and growth depends entirely on the team, even within same BU. We have 3 ex Amazon folks in my team, two of them joined as associate and one as VP. Feel free to DM me for more info.
If it’s not Marcus or marquee or trading, then I don’t think it’s worth it
If it’s a good team it’s a fine decision. Just don’t end up in some team using Slang or stuck in a C++98 codebase full of macros or something.