Goldman Sachs

Excellent benefits. Immediate team supervisors are supportive, invested in the success of their individual team members, and generally very available for advice and explanations. Higher-level individuals followed through on the promise of universal availability for communication.

The company does have a degree of awareness of and provides some limited accommodations for certain individual diverse and disabled conditions.

Perpetual corporate mindset and company cultural pressure to perform to an unhealthy degree and put in more time than is sustainable runs counter to the avowed company goals of work/life balance. Yearly execution of the lowest performing percentages (regardless of team needs) is the stick, the benefits are the carrot.

Like many Fortune 500 companies, they talk about support for and accommodation of diversity and disability, and in fact do provide certain accommodations, but only up to a point.

This publicly affirmed commitment to diversity and disability is in actuality limited in scope and scale and does not truly support the actual breadth of needs of diverse and disabled individuals – only the convenient accommodations that fall within the scope of the overbearing requirements for continuous overdrive performance. This results in a blind spot of discrimination against the many disabled and diverse segments of the workforce that fall outside of their narrow range of acceptance and willingness to accommodate. This unfortunate practice is prevalent among Fortune 500 companies.

Remote culture is actively promoted against, with the corporate culture of in-person communication and meetings being cited as the driving factor by upper-level management, despite the expressed wishes of the common employees to provide more remote workforce options.

Current accommodations for the diverse and disabled could be called a good starting point, but are sadly limited in actual scope and execution. This results in blind spots of discrimination against certain types of diversity and disability that persist even into 2024.