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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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Feb 2019
Interview
There was an online coding test.
Later I was called for f2f round.
3 interviews were taken each interviewed by 2 people. Each interview was more or less on the same lines, i mean there were no parameter separation as such.
There would have been 3-4 more rounds if I would have cleared subsequent rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
longest palindrome in a string
alternative odd even nos by 2 threads
lift question - less starvation and max utilisation
longest sub array having unique characters
stock prices of different vendors are coming in then get the best prices at any point of time. What would happen if a new price of vendor comes up, it should still give the best price at that time. - USE 2 stacks - 1 stack for the input at every input in stack 1 place the min element at that time in another stack. If the same vendor comes again with some new price just place it on stack 1 and get the min value at that time and place it in stack 2.
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