I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Feb 2021
Interview
HR scheduled coderpad round with the link and meeting.
For me two rounds of coderpad was scheduled.
only one round in a week. I got the mail every time for this session from the HR.
they mainly ask coding questions which are available in geeks for geeks in this rounds. if u answer they will proceed if you dont they will reject you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1 Coderpad : String anagram question. Interview wanted me to write efficient way of code. We have many ways to solve. but finally i wrote what he expected me to write. So it was fine
Round 2 : Median of Sorted Array: Here also i wanted to write my own way and then interviewer was not ok as it was space complexity. But that could have solved the problem . he wanted me to think how to calculate on fly. Since this question i have not read before i could not think of logic properly. and interview ended.
I dont think this is the right way of judging candiate where u see some question on geeks for geeks and ask that and then think candidate is not upto the mark. This interview process is worst i would say. May be someone had seen that question and he would have answered it the way the interviewer wanted. What is the use of having questions like that. how do u guarantee one who mugged up these questions can solve new complex problems in industry.
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.
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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