Cultural Shift - Vice President - Technology Goldman Sachs Employee Review

3.0
14 June 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Money - Money - Bragging rights on your resume - Challenging environment, politically. You can go work in DC after working here.

Cons

- Politics in IT departments are horrible! - Time management is impossible. Enjoy days full of meetings and e-mail, actual work adding to the business' bottom-line.. not so much. - IT Middle managers have bred themselves to the point of infestation. Most seem to think their job is to micromanage, call meetings, and send e-mail. Leadership is a term thrown around continuously, but rarely earned in reality.

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Pros

Interesting work and opportunities to grow

Cons

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3.0
30 June 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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