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Goldman Sachs vs Deloitte SWE Apprenticeship offers - HELP

Hi all,
So I basically need help with choosing between the above offers. I’ll try to give a summary for both. At Deloitte, I will be a junior developer within their Deloitte Digital service line and it’s a 3 year course. I think the training provider will be with Ada, with the degree accredited by the open university. I will be usually working 5 days a week, with a week off to focus on studies per term or half term (not too sure). I will be able to work from home some days.
With GS, it’s a 4 year software engineering course with QMUL for the same qualification. I will be doing 2 days at uni and 3 days in office with no work from home option. I don’t think I will be able to choose where I am placed in the firm. The salary at GS is higher.
I would like to choose Goldman mainly because of the overall benefits and the Uni provider, however I constantly hear how bad the WLB is. Can you guys help me?

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Marleen007

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by nial538

I'd definitely say the GS offer is better for long term career opportunities. A QMUL degree is going to be worth alot more than the Ada/OU one. Although can't speak to the WLB at GS i can imagine the 'horror stories' tend to come alot more from the finance/trading side of the business rather than the SWE side
Edit: and to add onto that point of WLB at GS, it appears they use an agile development methodology, which does tend to favour a positive WLB and work environment (source:https://www.goldmansachs.com/what-we-do/transaction-banking/news/dragan-jankovic.html)

Ty for the insights - will check that out !

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