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%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
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Interview
The OA was super easy but the coderpad was that pathetic! You wouldn't expect such a great company to have such a terrible panel! The interviewer was super rude abd not at all interested in listening to my thought process, was constantly using his phone. All he could do was change my code while I was writing and then breaking it. When I said him that was not the logic, he would just become defensive about it. The 2nd question that he asked was ambiguous. When I asked for clarity, he said I can go ahead whatever I feel is right. Then at the end of the coding, he changed the meaning of the question and said this test case is failing. Even though I told him the logic of it too, he said we don't have time. It was horrible! I expected a lot from Goldman Sachs.
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