I have been meaning to leave Goldman for a while now but things have finally gotten bad enough that I'd rather face the anxiety of having to interview than have to sit around any longer. To anyone that might be joining I leave these points of caution: 1) One of the only companies I know that doesn't provide laptops or monitors for you to work with. 2) Extremely stingy (as above) and though the TC went up this year it still probably falls short of other companies when accounting for inflation. 3) Here comes the worst part, start of this year they made it mandatory to work from office 3 days a week to the point where managers would take roll call during standup to keep tally of who was in office! They don't even have enough seating and they're pushing it to 4 days a week when the rest of the world is shifting to remote work. 5) Be careful, the naming of their positions is whack. They hired me as a quant and made me work on full stack. 4) This might seem trivial to some of y'all but they removed the one good they had going which was $20 GrubHub credit for lunch saying that they didn't want to give the wrong image to interns... This might just be my experience (and of those who work with me) however I would encourage anyone joining to think again. Most people join because of brand name and while there are some smart people that you get to work with most of them are too smart to stay which is slowly killing the company in my eyes. Coming back to my point, I am ready to leave and would greatly appreciate all of y'alls help with referrals as I try to find some meaningful work at a company with better culture. I am interested in analytics/ data science roles. #goldmansucks #hrt #citadel #palantir #tesla #yext #indeed #snapchat #oculus #airbnb #spacex #microsoft Blind tax: TC 108K (mainly thanks to bonus from our best year ever)
What’s your YOE?
Dm for sap
DM for tusimple
Dm
dm for CTC
DM for referral
Just out of curiosity, does that mean you have to buy your own laptop/desktop? I assume you get reimbursed for this?
For WFH you have to buy your own laptop, no reimbursement
$108k in a banner year is an absolute joke assuming you are in the US in MCOL or HCOL. Thought the one benefit of working in finance was good TC but I guess GS is trading on brand name only. Roll call is also insulting. DM for SpaceX. Otherwise I would recommend quantitative hedge funds since they do a lot of data engineering / analytics and the TC would be much better.
Banks pay money to traders and investment bankers. Anyone who brings in revenue is paid well and rest are just cost centers.
I think the entry level desk quant has a base salary of 125k+? Curious which quant is your role?
Don’t have a referral but good luck 🤙🏻