Company details

New York, NY

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

https://www.goldmansachs.com/

About the company

Goldman Sachs is a global financial services firm best known for investment banking, markets and trading, and asset and wealth management. Goldman Sachs advises companies, financial institutions, governments, and investors on deals, financing, risk management, and investments. The company also runs large-scale wealth management and alternatives businesses for institutions and high-net-worth clients. Goldman Sachs operates across major financial hubs and supports clients in public and private markets.

Locations and presence

Goldman Sachs has offices across more than 60 cities worldwide, with major hubs including New York and other large regional offices across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. Goldman Sachs is widely run as an office-first employer, with some flexible working arrangements available by manager approval depending on role and location.

Palpable Score

78.5

/ 100

Goldman Sachs offers one of the most structured early-career entry points in finance, with repeatable internships and full-time analyst pathways across regions and divisions. The hiring steps are unusually well-documented for a firm of this size, and the company backs that up with formal training and broad benefits. The main limiter is outcomes: public signals show both strong promotion pathways and recurring performance-cycle cuts, with limited hard data on intern conversion and early-career retention.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

18.5

/ 20

The company runs recurring student pipelines such as the Summer Analyst Program (nine to ten weeks) and the New Analyst Program for full-time entry roles across multiple divisions.

Goldman Sachs publishes a dedicated students hub that groups internships, exploratory programs, and regional early-career opportunities rather than treating junior hiring as ad hoc.

The company routes candidates to a central programs-and-internships system by region, which makes repeat applications and seasonal recruiting cycles easier to follow.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.5

/ 20

The company explains what happens after applying, including confirmation of receipt, later-season status updates, and an end-of-season outcome update, plus a portal to check application status.

Goldman Sachs lays out core assessment steps for campus hires, including a first-round video interview (around 30 minutes), division-specific assessments such as a HackerRank for engineering, and a Superday with typically two to five interviews.

The company includes an accessibility statement in job postings and points candidates to a contact route for recruiting support, but public materials do not commit to individual feedback after interviews.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.5

/ 20

The company builds early-career programs around orientation and training, and the Summer Analyst structure explicitly includes training plus real work alongside teams.

Goldman Sachs describes firmwide learning infrastructure through Goldman Sachs University and a performance framework (“Three Conversations at GS”) built around goal-setting, mid-year support, and year-end feedback gathered from multiple colleagues.

The company lists concrete support programs for analysts and associates, including identity-focused analyst initiatives (for example, Black Analyst and Associate Initiative and Hispanic/Latinx Analyst and Associate Initiative) and manager-required mental health training supported by EAP and resilience resources.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

17.0

/ 20

The company publishes base salary ranges on many roles hosted on the official job platform, and postings commonly state eligibility for a discretionary bonus alongside base pay.

Goldman Sachs outlines a broad benefits package that includes medical coverage, disability and life insurance, minimum expected vacation usage, parental and family leave provisions, and childcare support options that vary by office.

The company offers flexible working arrangements (including telecommuting) by manager approval, but early-career pay transparency is uneven across divisions because total compensation still depends heavily on discretionary components.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company has publicly discussed internal pathways aimed at keeping junior talent, including a route for some incoming junior bankers to start in investment banking and move into asset management after about two years.

Goldman Sachs has many public promotion announcements that reflect a steady flow from analyst to associate and onward progression over longer tenures, but these signals do not replace published retention or conversion rates.

The company runs recurring performance-cycle reductions that can affect early-career stability in down cycles, and Goldman Sachs does not publish intern-to-full-time conversion, early-tenure attrition, or time-to-promotion metrics that would let candidates judge outcomes more confidently.

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Useful links & resources

Students at Goldman Sachs Prepare: application and interview stages Summer Analyst Program (Americas)