I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Interview
The recruiting experience wasn't great because the whole process took 4 months and after onsite, I emailed them for an update so many times, they did not answer any of my emails. They got back with an offer after 2 months from onsite.
Contacted by recruiter on Linkedin
2 Phone Screen
1 Hiring Manager Phone Interview
5 Onsite (4 mix of situational and technical and 1 Behavioral with Director)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do not remember specifics:
- Create Hashmap
- Multi-threading questions - hard (easy if taken Masters level OS course in college)
- Java Garbage collection questions
- Array/String manipulation - Leetcode basic/medium difficulty
- Distributed systems design questions
The process went fast without dragging.
It involves 4 rounds of interviews, which include:
2 rounds of coderpad related to DSA,
1 round SDLC,
and 1 round from the hiring manager.
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
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 392 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 392 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%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Other: 2%
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