Goldman Sachs Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

Extremely competent senior leadership
State of the art facilities
Global exposure
Smart fellow workers
Broad range of roles and challenges

Cons

Complex environment to navigate through
No clear goals provided to each individual
Not very efficient work environment - long hours

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work keeping everyone focused through turbulent times.
Balance Focus on increasing global connectivity with improving the efficiency within the organization.

Pros

company transport, cafetaria, health support, working environment, everyday challenges make work more interesting. All the work done has a purpose one way or other.

Cons

miniscule stipend during internship leaves you with more expenses than you earn. Very demanding jobs. Overly formal culture. Very competitive colleagues

Pros

Rewards your hard work very well. Has very smart people. Firm's culture is very good. Managers are highly competent. You are not treated as a resource but as an asset of the firm. CEO says our employees are also our clients.

Cons

If you don't like to be proactive and take responsibilities then Goldman is not the place for you. You may have to sacrifice personal life to grow fast in the firm.

Advice to Senior Management

They are the best in the industry and know how to handle their job very well. Keep up the good work.

Pros

Culture, Professional, American, Value People, Growth oriented

Cons

Works in regulated market conditions

Advice to Senior Management

No

Pros

High Salary, Company transport to pick you up from and drop back to your house, Great work culture, Steep learning curve

Cons

Long work hours but you get used to it within a month

Advice to Senior Management

No specific advice

Pros

good salary, nice facilities and good exposer to investment banking domain

Cons

no work life balance, not a good place for techies to improve on their skills

Advice to Senior Management

need to have more of team building activities.

Pros

Good work environment, decent pay, good hours, great cafeteria, networking opps, lateral movement is easy. Over all an enjoyable experience

Cons

Stressful work
Mental lethargy
Pay not satisfactory
Boring
Lack of Sleep
Working late on friday night
Strict regimes
School like

Advice to Senior Management

You could make yourselves more available for advice and leadership help, for junior employees, aside from just fireside chats, this would help greatly.

Pros

Good systems/processes, management is friendly

Cons

Less scope for growth in tech

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing at all. Management is really professional and good.

Pros

Freedom of thoughts, Challenging, Networking

Cons

No work life balance possible

Advice to Senior Management

Need to review managers more effectively

Pros

Best exposure to the finance & investment domain. Huge learning opportunity.
Good for those who have no personal life or friends - since they expect employees to work all the time.
Encourage employees to take up more and more responsibilities - practically unlimited.

Cons

No personal life - weekends, early morning & late night calls will make you feel as if you are working 24 hours a day.
Much of the decision making happens outside of India.
Too much bureaucracy and herd mentality. Managers just repeat whatever senior managers say -- in the name of consensus based decision making.
Not a company for true technologists or geeks -- since too many technical shortcuts are taken everyday succumbing to biz demands.
Old timers here are too proud to listen to any new opinions.

Advice to Senior Management

Better work life balance would make this company a much better place to work.
Also, too much of pride is only going to take company down the hill.