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%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
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got a call from GMS through online forums. There was a written round which had two types question sets. One was analytical and other was for c#. both objective. After clearing the written test, there was technical interview where they asked mostly on c# since that was my past experience. After that a manager round where they asked about my previous work and projects. i was told that once they discus and decide for which position they thought i suited they ll call me again for another 5-6 rounds of technical interviews Since then no response...
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stored procedures have better performance than functions .. because stored procedures are compiled and stored at server side.. then he asked me about execution of storage procedure.. but guess it was just to check how much in depth i know about it...
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Mar 2026
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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.
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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
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Technical questions around my technology and experience