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I was offered a lateral role ~1 month ago. I turned it down and not sure who it went to at this point.

I didn't go through a regular process for the position and I didn't "apply" through Goldman's portal until after they verbally offered me. For what its worth their lateral offer was very enticing (written that bonus wouldn't be prorated, verbally promoted to Associate in September with assurance from Sector/Department Head).

 
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I was at a BB when they reached out and I'm at a different BB now. A senior banker messaged me on LinkedIn and asked if I would have interest in the role and that is how I got in the process. My process was very atypical as it was 10+ 1:1 interviews (mostly on Calls/Zoom) spread out over two weeks with no Superday. I basically just interviewed with the senior bankers I would be working with, senior leadership, and one or two juniors.  

I really wanted to take the job, but I valued WLB over the prestige of working at GS. While this could come back to bite me, I valued the marginal improvement of WLB at another firm over the Goldman name. For what it is worth I wasn't really trying to leave my old BB in the first place, but I was at one of the firms that has been in the news a lot for not great reasons (think UBS/Citi/Barclays) and I felt obligated to look out for myself.

 

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I was offered a lateral role ~1 month ago. I turned it down and not sure who it went to at this point.



I didn't go through a regular process for the position and I didn't "apply" through Goldman's portal until after they verbally offered me. For what its worth their lateral offer was very enticing (written that bonus wouldn't be prorated, verbally promoted to Associate in September with assurance from Sector/Department Head).


Sounds like a good deal, why pass?

 

dude its march. how would anyone have any idea what the return offer rate will be for interns who don't finish their internships until mid august. the economy could change, the interns could suck, some might not take their return offers. nobody has a clue

 

My understanding is that Goldman runs their process through the network of employees and headhunter, and once they have filled the position, then the selected candidate needs to submit an application through the careers portal “for compliance”.

They don’t even look all the resumes they receive through the portal.

If you want to lateral to GS, you better start networking with people there, because most of the times the openings they announce are already filled.

 

Does anyone how many rounds interview they do? My friend received a bunch of intrerview for first round. 

Also seems like they are anti laid-off people, lol MD terminated the interview after barely 2 questions probably becuase of that lol. 

 

Spoke to them 3x. Most horrendous interview experiences ever. Might be my uni or background but basically went in both times only to be treated like shit by supermodels..

 

Anyone still involved in the Consumer process for London? Haven't heard back in a while..

 

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