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Goldman Used to Be a Dream, Now It’s Just a Bank
CEO David Solomon is under heat for gruffness, DJing and using private planes. But his real sin was getting into commercial banking.
Survival mode.
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Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to start working at Goldman Sachs *right now.* At the time of writing, the firm is hiring for 244 New York-based positions, so somebody is doing it. And if that person were to, say, write a diary entry after their first day, maybe it’d look like this: