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%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Jul 2017
Interview
Consultancy guy called me and processed my profile. They told me that they dont have any JD about the vacancy. After a week I got a mail from GS for with a link to an online assessment,
1)Online Coding Assesment- 2 Questions
2) Telephonic coding Interview - WhiteBoard Interview ( 2 Questions)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Online Assessment
1) Forgot the Exact Question
2) Given a String and a key to it. Asked to encode and decode the String based on that.
White Board Interview Questions(Most of the code and Testcases will appear, you have to complete a method)
1) A robot can move in 4 directions. 'U' - UP, 'D' - DOWN, 'L'- LEFT, 'R'-RIGHT. Ignore all teh other. The position of the robot can be identified by array[x][y]. Please completed the method which returns the final position of the robot.
private static Integer[][] findIndex(String testCase){
return new Integer[0][0];
}
Here the testcase contains the characters like 'ULLLDDUU STRULR';
2) A child climbing stairs which has N number of Steps. To add fun to it child can climb 1 or 2 or 3 at a time. Find the number of ways the child can climb the N number of steps?
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