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%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Salt Lake City, UT) in Sep 2020
Interview
I had applied to Goldman online and received an interview invite. The interview process is very tedious and it takes time, mine took almost a month.
Round 1: Coder pad -> Simple High Five question with some tweaks and some LR questions.
Round 2: Code pad -> Hash Map question using Generics. Now, this was tricky as you have to code real time.
Round 3, Super Day : This had three rounds 45 mins each without a break
1: Round 1 : They asked me about SQL, basic queries of Unique and also to get the largest element. 2 Sum, 3 Sum, 4 Sum problem.
2: Round 2: SDLC principles : Now, this was mostly a summary of my experience and how one will get to production design, unit testing and overall working of the whole software. I felt it was positive, but I guess I failed in answering some of the questions for database related unit testing. Mochito was the answer.
3: Round 3: System design round, The interviewer shared a document which had a futures problem and how I would reduce the total transactions over the system to save company money. Plus some leadership principles and one question about my approach in using React and Angular JS.
Received a mail from HR that I was not selected.
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