Pros
It looks good on your resume Highly diversified employees
Cons
If you are in IT, pay attention to this: -Extremely long, devastating hours. You will never be able to make a plan with your friends, girlfriend etc, because you never know when something will break, having you urgently have to fix it on a sunday evening or tuesday night. To fix things on a very short notice at very inconvenient hours is the least thing the firm expects and you will not get rewarded for this, however if you do not, you might get fired. -You will be working with people who are not interested in going home, thus will have little understanding for you wanting to do so. If you want to retain your life friends/family etc, do not work at GS. I read a review here stressing exactly this before I joined and ignored it thinking it cannot be that bad, right now I wish i thought twice. -Salary likely be better than your current employeer, but compared to the insane amount of hours you will need to work, it will be not be close to worth it. The firm want to cut down their salaries and replace with bonuses, which is easy to understand as it will force people to work even harder, and in the end the bonuses will be taken from a shared bonus pool so your performance will only be measured based on other persons performance which ofcourse gives a lot of extra effort to the company as everyone will be racing each other. -Everyone want to work here because everyone want to work here, I cannot think of an actual reason, its just a brand. -Expect no respect from any other employee, your Ph.D from an inv league university is worth exactly zero.