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Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent
- dozzie 12y agoIt's finance industry. It may even be challenging on the technology ground, but there's no mission and purpose behind, just making someone make big bucks. Quite the opposite in Sillicon Valley, I suppose, where one can build something that actually affects the world. It's hard to force self to like an abstract problem if one didn't like it on its own.
- privong 12y ago> but there's no mission and purpose behind, just making someone make big bucks. Quite the opposite in Sillicon Valley, I suppose, where one can build something that actually affects the world. This is not universally true. One can find examples of SV companies that are not doing important things that affect the world (e.g., "Yo!") and one can find people on Wall Street who are making money and using it to affect the world (e.g., James Simons and the Simons Foundation).
- cryoshon 12y agoThis "article" is a barely-concealed advertisement for technology job opportunities within the company. I predict that they paid the NY Times for this article. There is no mention of legitimate reasons why someone would not want to work for Goldman Sachs, namely their horrendous reputation for market manipulation, political bribery, and profiting from the financial crisis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Controversies