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Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent by JDiculous on Friday November 14, 2014 @06:20AM (#8606626)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure starting salaries at GS and other banks are around $80-90k + a small bonus (10-20%?). Not bad, but definitely less than Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and other major tech companies. So if you're a software engineer going for the money, GS isn't really the place to be.
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Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent by 3EAFC164D817 on Friday November 14, 2014 @08:13AM (#8606934)
> So if you're a software engineer going for the money, GS isn't really the place to be.

Over the long term, financial services wins. The compensation curve is much steeper than most tech firms.

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Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent by lern_too_spel on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:03AM (#8607120)
GS in particular pays crap wages according to salar.ly.
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Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent by massmana on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:26AM (#8607227)
That's because you're looking at the wrong job title. For experienced engineers look at Vice President and Senior Vice President.
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Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent by lern_too_spel on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:27AM (#8607237)
I'm well aware of the "everybody's a VP" system at Goldman. Those are the titles I'm looking at.
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Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent by omh on Friday November 14, 2014 @10:37AM (#8607577)
Do the stats include bonus? If you're a Goldman VP then your salary might be mediocre but your bonus will be significant
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Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent by pmorici on Friday November 14, 2014 @10:15AM (#8607469)
Salar.ly gets it's data from foreign worker visa applications how representative of the wider work force can that possibly be?
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