Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Goldman Sachs with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 392 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Goldman Sachs overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Goldman Sachs as a Software Engineer according to 392 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 10%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in Oct 2014
Interview
Applied on campus career fair. received email later for first interview and then later got invited to onsite. The questions were both technical and behavioral. There were 2 interviews both on campus and on site. Recruiter was really nice, occasionally dropping hints when I wasnt too sure how to proceed. They review your resume and ask you about things that you put on there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions on Java (my preferred language) like what is JVM and what does it do.
Also asked a case question which is similar to asking how you would write malloc.
Onsite interview was behavioral and technical (data structures) questions.
The process went fast without dragging.
It involves 4 rounds of interviews, which include:
2 rounds of coderpad related to DSA,
1 round SDLC,
and 1 round from the hiring manager.
A recruiter reached out to me. Technical screening was easy, then the super day loop included LC medium/hard questions. The last interview was my background check, project deep-dive, and theoretical conversation about applied solutions and their limitations/optimization.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Screening: GS tagged questions on LC
Super Day: Longest Palindrome Substring, question similar to Number of Ways to Wear Different Hats to Each Other (not exactly this), question with hashmap+sliding window and question with heaps.
Had Coderpad interview (45 mins), Superday Interview (45mins ,45 mins) virtually. they were DSA , DSA+ System Design. currently waiting for the update. 2 interviewers, were there in each rounds. DSA problems were Optimal approach and find average score