I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in Aug 2019
Interview
First round:
Coder Pad interview of two problem, the guy was very nice and was barely there, he told me to pretend if Am walking on my office and run the test all the time you want.
1) what is the second smallest integer in the an int array.
I did a iteration keeping track of the smallest and second smallest.
2) find the minimum sum of integer equal or less to a number.
I was struggling a little with this and when he saw I was stuck on it, he gave me a hint on
how to approach the problem. Time ran out and he gave me 5 extract minutes and I got
it to work.
I got an email from hr like 2 weeks later that the want to continue with the process for an onsite interview with different team in the bank.
My onsite experience was not as pleasant as my coder pad, the more senior guy were more easy and fun to talk to but the more junior guy were very arrogant and didn't felt like doing the interview at all.
Onsite:
Round 1: Nothing much an introduction of yourself and a leetcode problem.
Occurrences of substring in a string.
Round 2: leetcode
Sort array of strings by size.
Round 3: Tell me the must challenging project you work on and leetcode of two string, one is rotate, return true if rotate.
Round 4: Tell me the most challenging project you work on again. Have you have any nontechnical problem , how do you came about it.
Round 5: DS question.
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
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%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Other: 2%
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