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 393 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 393 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 10%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs in Feb 2018
Interview
Recruiter reached out on LinkedIn saying they're expanding in SF and want to hire multiple engineers for a promising project that impacts the whole company. I realized it was a good opportunity and after a call with him, I was explained the interview process - timed hackathon test, followed by standard 1hr technical phone interview followed by an onsite at the SF office. I did not make it to the onsite but will share the question I faced for the phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
/* Problem Name is &&& Second Smallest &&& PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE. */
/**
* Instructions to candidate.
* 1) Run this code in the REPL to observe its behaviour. The
* execution entry point is main().
* 2) Consider adding some additional tests in doTestsPass().
* 3) Implement secondSmallest() correctly.
* 4) If time permits, some possible follow-ups.
*/
/**
* Returns the second smallest element in the array x.
* Returns 0 if the array has fewer than 2 elements.
*/
// [1, 0 ,2]
function secondSmallest(x)
{
// todo: implement this function
var smallest = Infinity,
smallestDiff = Infinity,
diffArray = [];
for(var i=0; i<x.length; i++){
if(x[i] <= smallest){
smallest = x[i];
}
}
for(var j=0; j<x.length; j++){
if(x[j] !== smallest){
diffArray.push(x[j] - smallest);
}
}
for(var k=0; k<diffArray.length; k++){
//smallest diff
if(diffArray[k] <= smallestDiff){
smallestDiff = diffArray[k];
}
}
return smallest + smallestDiff;
}
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