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Odd, I worked at Goldman Sachs in London in approx. 1999-2001 and visited the New York office a few times and remember it being the usual "smart/casual" (veerin
by duncans 9y ago
Odd, I worked at Goldman Sachs in London in approx. 1999-2001 and visited the New York office a few times and remember it being the usual "smart/casual" (veering to very casual). When did it smarten up?
- nopzor 9y agoI visited their NYC offices in 2008. we were talking to them about some openstack/cloud stuff at the time. I went in jeans and a polo. My contact there emailed after saying the meeting went well, but to please wear a dress shirt and no jeans next time. And I wasn't even an employee! ;)
- dc2447 9y agoDefinitely ahead of their time, Openstack wasn't formed until 2010
- FabHK 9y agoDuring those years, London switched from suit (with tie) to suit (tie optional). I don't recall New York being much more casual, but it might have. Back then, in NY, they put a foosball table on the 26th floor (IIRC) of 85 Broad St for the quants ("Strats"), in an effort to compete as an employer with the first dot.com boom (foosball = cool, right). Once the tech bubble burst, the foosball table was gone pretty quickly though! :) The London head office was in a listed art deco building on Fleet Street, beautifully renovated with a great gym and waterfall, quickly dubbed the "NASDAQ 5000 memorial waterfall"... (It only hit 5000 again in 2015)
- kchoudhu 9y agoTech never did smarten up. I wore business casual every day to work from 2008 onward, no one ever said a damned thing. Did put on a tie when making presentations to the desk, though.
- jen20 9y agoTo throw my anecdote in here too, it was the same smart/casual dress code in the 2006 time frame that I was at GS (also in London).