Goldman Sachs reviews

The internal competition is depressing. Most of the people are there for themselves and are willing to do pretty much anything to look out for their own best interests. The company works in "teams" to create revenue, but there is no sense that anyone is there to be a part of a "team" unless they are grossly profitting from their extremely weathly clients. When times are good, everyone is happy, when markets are bad and clients are losing money, people get cut. Management is what you would expect from a cut-throat investment firm, concerned mostly with the bottom line. They are not concerned with interests of their employees and would side with an angry client before sticking up for someone who has worked for them for years.

Zero work-life balance, arrogance of senior management and most of those in positions of power, unrealistic expectations of employees (worse in some departments vs. others, IBD is particularly heinous for example), feedback on performance is not communicated effectively and managers who are attempting to communicate performance are by and large incompetent, they likely have earned their position by attending an ivy league school that the hiring manager shared as an alma mater, not by merit or tenure.