Quant Strategist applicants have rated the interview process at Goldman Sachs with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quant Strategist roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 10 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 Quant Strategist according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 29%
Phone interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Personality test: 7%
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OA, hirevue, superday. Superday was 2 interviews, one coding (implementing a class structure) and one math based. Not too bad in terms of difficulty, nice interviewers blah blah blah blah
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Question 1
Matrix with 0s on diagonal, 1s everywhere else. What are eigenvalues?
Take home assessment, then 2 weeks later got hirevue, then an additional 2 months later got invited to superday consisting of 2 45 minute interviews behavioral and technical questions such as probability and stats questions and programming questions.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Salt Lake City, UT) in Mar 2025
Interview
Applied online. First Round coding questions then Online Superday 3 weeks later. 2 Back to back interview mix of coding and maths. Greebook type questions and Leetcode medium difficulty. Array question around coins and maths question around probability of meeting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me a probability question involving the chance of two people meeting—kind of a brainteaser—and a Leetcode-style array problem that involved distributing coins efficiently. It was a mix of math intuition and coding logic.