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 393 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 393 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in Apr 2018
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter, a coding interview was scheduled approximately 3 weeks after I submitted my resume.
The interviewer seemed very nice and was willing to answer any questions regarding the 2 problems.
I answered the first problem easily, but the second was considerably more difficult.
I do not expect to be called in for further interviews, but who knows?
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Find the second smallest integer in an array. Do not worry about duplicates.
An online retailer allows sellers to post different prices for the same product at different time intervals. Find an algorithm to return a list of sorted intervals with the lowest price.
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
First round was hackerrank assessment having 2 coding questions. Then after clearing that, the first round of interview had Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score. I was not able to do it. Interviewer was very nice though
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score