Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Goldman Sachs with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 35% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 42 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 42 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 10%
Background check: 6%
Presentation: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Mar 2012
Interview
Interview process started positively. There were 5 telephonic discussion before they request me fly to Bangalore for further F2F rounds. All telephonic rounds were mostly technical in nature. Questions varied from design aspects to problem solving skills. F2F rounds went also good and it took 5 hrs time for in-campus rounds. After F2F there were also few more telephonic discussion with VP-Tech. I was told in 16th round that it is final deciding round and after that interview i was positive about the offer, but HR personnel again called and asked me for one more telephonic interview with another VP.
Overall, whole process was time consuming in big way. The main problem is, i was asked to bear all spending to travel to Bangalore which will be reimbursed later. But, HR personnel is completely unmoved, even after 4 weeks has passed to my travel to Bangalore and with repeated request for reimbursement via mail. I was told that things are positive but now there is no reply on follow-up mails since last two weeks. It was a huge loss of my money and time. For others good techies, i will advise you think twice interviewing goldman for the work in proprietary language, which outside world has no regard.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Mar 2026
Interview
They take 2 rounds for FTC, in which 1st round would be coderpad and java basic questions. 2nd round Java and its Frameworks along with the internals of java functions and Design level questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How tha hashmap and hash set works internally and which one would be faster. along with Tree set internal implementation.
Phone interview, online interview,
Phone interview was better . Pretty basic expectations.
Online interview - need to solve problem in hackathon . Easy to medium hard leet code problems . Need to write test cases and execute them as well
good interview and difficult. i was not much prepared so i did not performed well in the interview, but the interview experience was great did not get selected though Thanks
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions around my technology and experience