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 online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs in Jan 2019
Interview
I applied online. A couple of weeks later a recruiter emailed me about the initial phone call to ask more about my background. The call was about 15 minutes and the goal was to know about my background. After the initial call, I moved forward to the next stage, which was a technical code interview in CoderPad. I passed this interview and I got asked to have another technical interview. Unfortunately, I missed my interview because I entered the time in PST in my calendar and the interview time was in EST. I wrote to my recruiter and I apologized for my mistake. They gave me the chance to give them my availability one more time. I did but a few minutes after I confirmed the second interview time, I received an email from another company for onsite and it was on the same day and the problem was that it was strict and I could either accept or I would miss the onsite. I immediately wrote to my recruiter in Goldman Sachs and told about this conflict and aksed to disregard my previous email and I will let them know about my availability soon. However, Goldman Sachs recruiter wrote an email and said they withdrew my candidacy.
I know that it was my mistake that caused this issue in the first place but I wish they were more understanding, especially that I informed them less than 20 minutes after I confirmed the 2nd interview time. They seem to be very strict and not flexible and I am happy that I learned it early. I would not wish to work in a company with this culuture.
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