NYMagazine’s Kevin Roose reports: It's always been presumed
(by me) that when Goldman Sachs employees are in the running to be named
partners at the firm, they're sent on a brutal, globe-spanning Amazing
Race–style test of physical abilities, where they face challenges like scaling
Kilimanjaro wearing only a fur-lined Zegna suit and traversing the Gobi Desert
with a summer intern strapped to their backs.
So it's a bit of a relief that the actual test Goldman
employees took on last fall — an epic fifteen-hour scavenger hunt that involved
180 of the firm's employees — was more cerebral than physically grueling.
Quartz's Euny Hong embedded with a team from the Goldman
commodities desk during "Midnight Madness," a massive all-night hunt
that took twenty teams around New York
City for a series of complex brain-teaser challenges.
(The name is an homage to a bad 1980 Disney movie.) The hunt cost $270,000 in
total and was financed by Goldman Sachs Gives, the firm's partner-led charity….
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