Sharing my offer data since senior engineer comp at Goldman is hard to find and people keep conflating it with front-office / banking comp.
Role: Senior Software Engineer (equivalent roughly to L5 at Google, E5 at Meta). Team: consumer tech, NYC.
My offer (accepted, 2026): Base: $185,000 Year-end bonus: target 20-30% of base, so $37k-$55k range at full performance. Paid annually, not quarterly. RSUs: $120,000 total, vesting over 3 years. No cliff (1/3 per year). Actual grant value fluctuates with GS stock. Sign-on: $40,000, clawed back if you leave before 12 months. Total comp at target bonus and full vesting: somewhere around $360-380k TC depending on stock price.
A couple of things that differ from FAANG:
Goldman's equity is GS stock, not a private startup or a diversified index. If you believe in the stock that's fine. If you want diversification at vest you're selling and paying cap gains.
The bonus is heavily discretion-based. A good year for the firm means higher bonus pool. A bad year means the 20% target becomes 10%. That variability is real. In 2022-2023 cycles, people I know got meaningfully below target.
Salary bands at GS compress less than at FAANG, so there's less room to negotiate base via competing offers. The recruiter told me the base was "firm" and the sign-on was where they had flexibility. That tracked.
For context, my FAANG competing offer at the same level was $210k base / $150k RSU / $30k bonus, which is higher total comp but also a tech company with different risk profile.
Happy to answer questions on how negotiation played out.