The girl didn’t exaggerate the story, I know her too well. This might be an isolated story as my experience with them is quite different. The disturbing thing with the story is: interviewers could veto candidate, but nobody deserved to be teased and laughed at even if they were idiots. Maybe she is a pretty and sexy woman so she has to be dumb to fit the stereotype? For example, the third interview kept throwing brain teasers at her. When she solved two perfectly in a row, the interviewer sneered at her saying: " if this is the optimal answer, oh, you would be able to sell it to the head trader?!" When she tried to solve the third, he just mislead her by giving her fake leads. The fourth interviewer kept staring at her when she did the calculation, when she tried to discuss something with him, he told her" I don’t want to harass you!". All this cannot be too unprofessional! I am glad she is not going to work there. BTW, she got two other offers in this market, there are firms that think she is great.
Always go with the firms that think you are great, no point to work for a firm where you cannot be appreciated for what you know or who you are, unless you have no other choice.
Screw Goldman.
There will always be some jerks in any company. It is a good thing she isn’t going to work with that team. If she really wants to work for GS, she can try again. Maybe she will meet a better team. If GS always blacklisted her because of a rejection, then just go find something else. This is no biggee really.
wtf is wrong with you guys now a days… you act like you deserve a job at a company making $100K+ right out of school. you have to start somewhere, put in the time, make yourself valuable/ marketable, then go to companies and sell yourself. if the companies don’t think you are valuable, then f’ em start your on thing and make your millions; otherwise suck it up. you are entitled to $hit, don’t think differently.
undergrad i got pretty far with goldman in the recruiting process- they came to school for a round of interviews, next day did a 2nd round and then a dinner for the top maybe 5 or so they were choosing from. i thought that was an interesting idea for undergrad recruitment- get a big table and see who can carry a conversation, who has social skills beyond the interview, etc. i got flown to NYC twice after for more rounds with different folks. first one was with maybe 5 or 6 different people from different departments- got a fair share of brain teasers and tough overall questions. next round was similar, different people in a few more focused groups where they thought you might be a fit. were they cocky? sure. but that’s wall street. if you can’t handle it, you probably shouldn’t be in this sort of career. i’m a female also and i think you have to be extra tough to make your presence known, but it can be done. i don’t even think they sent a letter of rejection or anything after this 2nd round of NYC interviews… just radio silence and upon my phone call, a polite we’ll keep your resume on file sort of thing. definitely not a horror story. they’re confident as they should be, you want to work for them, they let it be known who is in the position of authority. funnily enough, one of the 2 people who originally came to the college campus interview had been an all-american soccer player, we knew a lot of the same folks (i played a different sport but D1, yes i agree with everyone else who says put a sport on the resume- it helps)… she obviously was competitive and an all-star caliber worker, but she in confidence to me didn’t even give the most glowing review of working there. maybe right out of school it’s a jolt in NYC between work/life balance or the lack of life and way too much work. anyways, graduating in 1998, it certainly wasn’t the end of the world for me and i had many offers to choose from just not goldman. it’s a great firm, but as others have said here, there are a lot of great firms out there- if not them, make your mark somewhere else.