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%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Salt Lake City, UT) in Mar 2021
Interview
Initial phone call with recruiter about the position.
Second interview was a couple of behavioral questions in the format of “what would you do if your coworker/manager...” and followed up with coding questions through CoderPad. 1 LC easy and 1 LC hard. Unit tests are already pre-written, they want you to add to them. With the easy question I spent more time trying to think of additional unit tests despite working code since the interviewer was focused on that.
Because the questions were copy and pasted almost exactly from LeetCode with prompt into CoderPad it didn’t allow for much dialogue to ask questions. Simply read the instructions and verbalize your thought process. This could easily be a step in the interview process that is auto timed instead of on the phone with someone due to this, however this did help get clarifying questions about the role through the interviewer.
I didn’t get to the next step since I spent too much time on unit tests, however next and final step would’ve been a 5 hour interview with several people.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What would you do if your coworker came up to you in the elevator saying they’re getting a larger mortgage with hopes of getting a promotion soon?
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