I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Kharagpur, West Bengal) in Aug 2018
Interview
An online test consisting of 3 sections: Coding, Analytics and Quant followed by 4 interviews. First one was again based on probability and statistics and coding questions. Second one was the CV round (full grilling on everything written in my CV). Third one was basically puzzles and general aptitude and the last one was an HR round.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Division of gold among 5 pirates based on seniority (can be found on geeksforgeeks).
8 men and 7 women go into a movie hall. How many ways can a potential marriage couple be sitting together? (Can be found in - 50 challenging problems in Probability)
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 Developer 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 Developer 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 Developer according to 392 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 10%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Other: 2%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -