Goldman Sachs

Challenging work. A lot to learn. Interesting problems. Great people in business. Great team-based work environment.

There is a lot of nepotism in the PWM Technology department. A lot of people who work there all leave unless they establish a personal relationship with an MD who has a very binary approach to all constituents. You are either a favourite or someone who can be put into an "underperformer" bucket, and you will not even know it, even if you worked hard all year.

A lot of people leave because of that; it is like a revolving door.

• Long hours
• Abysmal pay
• Back-stabby people in management

Pay market price salaries and respect technology engineers. Abandon SecDB – it will kill the bank; it's too slow.

It's 2018 and SecDB runs on 1990s slow code, written on a fat layer of C++ wrappers. Invest in technology.

And most of all, stop telling people that you are a technology company. Everyone who works in the Goldman Sachs Technology Division has a different opinion – you are NOT a technology company.