Vice President - Project Manager
Vice President - Project Manager
Smartest people to work with.
I always wanted to work with people who are either smarter than me or can keep me on my toes. This is the right place if you care about meritocracy and learning new things on an ongoing basis. I've been working with the firm, and with the same team, for five years now and am still learning, building on both my technical and functional knowledge.
Another Pro: GS takes care of its high performers. They'll price you out of the market if you are good. While money is not the be-all, end-all, it feels good to be taken care of.
Work-life balance. If you want to succeed and be first among equals while competing with other really smart people, the price exacted is your family time. There's a lot of lip service about work-life balance from senior management, but this is a capitalist environment: those who are willing to pay the highest price will beat out the rest.
Get rid of the "quartiling" process for appraising employees. It is not fair. I've painstakingly recruited really good people for my team, only to be forced to push someone into the fourth quartile during reviews, impacting their year-end appraisals. This happens while being surrounded by teams where these fourth quartile personnel would be superstars.
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Vice President -Technology
I was interviewed as a consultant, so the experience was not the same as it is for most people. I spoke with the managing director and the lead manager I would be working for. Normally, many more rounds of interviews are required, and the process ta
Associate Software Engineer
Round 1: 2 DSA questions. Gave both questions correct, still not selected. Question 1: First Non-Repeating Character in a String. Solved it using brute force and optimal both. Question 2: Trapping Rainwater. Solved with brute force. Didn't go for th
Software Engineer
Single interview, LeetCode style medium/hard questions, with follow-ups regarding Python concepts and backend architecture. The interviewer was a little arrogant, and the interview was around 1 hour+.
Vice President -Technology
New York, New York, United StatesApril 10, 2014I was interviewed as a consultant, so the experience was not the same as it is for most people. I spoke with the managing director and the lead manager I would be working for. Normally, many more rounds of interviews are required, and the process ta
Associate Software Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaSeptember 1, 2025Round 1: 2 DSA questions. Gave both questions correct, still not selected. Question 1: First Non-Repeating Character in a String. Solved it using brute force and optimal both. Question 2: Trapping Rainwater. Solved with brute force. Didn't go for th
Software Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaAugust 1, 2025Single interview, LeetCode style medium/hard questions, with follow-ups regarding Python concepts and backend architecture. The interviewer was a little arrogant, and the interview was around 1 hour+.
