Toxic environment and low pay - Associate Goldman Sachs Employee Review

1.0
Nov 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Brand name, some of my peers became my close friends

Cons

Managers only pretend to care about you and your career. The moment you showed even the slightest dissent to their leadership they will backstab you and sabotage your performance review. The reviews are heavily controlled by your managers. All it comes down to at the end of the day is whether or not you kissed their a** correctly. You could argue that this is typical corporate America culture, but just know that this is a place that rewards this kind of toxic behavior. All the good hearted people I know either left on their own or got purged out. Unless you become one of these toxic managers’ favorites, you’ll always just be mediocre until they find an excuse to lay you off. You could be managed from being a top-performing employee to a bottom one within a year.

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

The firm encourages and supports to change teams, which is helpful in expanding experience or moving away if you aren't happy with your team

Cons

The promotion has become very opaque lately. They hardly give out promotions, but make you slog and overwork the whole year in the name of it. Basically, you have worked 200% and made to look like a fool by the end of the year.

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