Goldman Sachs Employee Reviews about "manager"

Cons

No work life balance for QA peoples need to work 16 hrs a day. In interview they will ask only automation related questions but after joining if full of Manual testing. No proper kt provided at the joining time. They will directly assign the stories to test. Very bad managers they are not satisfied even we work for 16 hrs a day. Totally highly toxic environment. Please don't join if you need a good work life balance.

Cons

Constant cost cutting measures making it an increasingly less attractive place to work. Managers will set unrealistic mobility and flexibility expectations that they do not hold up to. Many managers entice new joiners by telling them there are opportunities for internal mobility or physical location mobility, which happens rarely. If you are okay with working a redundant back office role it's a good option, but things get boring quickly and value is not great for work life balance for how little the wages are.

Cons

Hours can be really long for some teams to cover the attrition of the experienced hires and to train the new hires. A lot of contingent workers means we're constantly training people, as the CWs may leave after 6 months, and the cycle rinse and repeats. Pay can be more competitive for the hours that we work on a weekly basis (average pay per hour is quite low).

Cons

not very challenging/engaging work. If going into operations, know that everyone sells you on how great the company is. Personally, I felt that was the only thing I gained was getting a "brand name" on my resume. All actual serious investment jobs I subsequently interviewed for were quick to dismiss my experience as relevant.

Cons

Depending on the team you're put on you may have a great or not so great manager. Mine was not so great unfortunately since my manager wasn't always around, requiring me to report to several different people

Cons

would have liked if the structure was less hierarchical and managers were more approcable and had more challenging projects to work on

Cons

long hours, 24x7 culture. takes time to be promoted and there is a culture of clique in certain organizations within the firm. Although feedback is given sometimes it's more of a process than a collaborative effort to improve someone professionally.

Cons

No cons to speak on

Cons

Operations work for the most part is mind numbing and repetitive. People are used as patches for the processes that haven't yet been automated. This leads to daily work that doesn't build any transferable skills. What knowledge you do manage to build is usually rooted in the technical aspect of the firms system, and will eventually become obsolete once they roll out a system update. Depending on your managers compensation and promotions can be very closely tied to office politics. It is almost impossible to stand out as a high performer through your daily work alone. Which means that a lot of analyst spend time doing useless project work on top of the daily work load just to get recognition from senior managers. I think GS can be a great place to work if you are in a different division but would recommend people avoid ops at all costs.

Cons

Goldman Sachs is known for long working hours. There is also too much pressure if you don't "fit" in their culture. The pay is abysmal for people starting out with most of it being shared by the upper management. Though they try to evaluate your performance objectively, lot of things depend on perception.