I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Salt Lake City, UT) in Mar 2021
Interview
Initial phone call with recruiter about the position.
Second interview was a couple of behavioral questions in the format of “what would you do if your coworker/manager...” and followed up with coding questions through CoderPad. 1 LC easy and 1 LC hard. Unit tests are already pre-written, they want you to add to them. With the easy question I spent more time trying to think of additional unit tests despite working code since the interviewer was focused on that.
Because the questions were copy and pasted almost exactly from LeetCode with prompt into CoderPad it didn’t allow for much dialogue to ask questions. Simply read the instructions and verbalize your thought process. This could easily be a step in the interview process that is auto timed instead of on the phone with someone due to this, however this did help get clarifying questions about the role through the interviewer.
I didn’t get to the next step since I spent too much time on unit tests, however next and final step would’ve been a 5 hour interview with several people.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What would you do if your coworker came up to you in the elevator saying they’re getting a larger mortgage with hopes of getting a promotion soon?
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