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%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (London, England) in Sep 2020
Interview
Interview process consisted of one coding round and one virtual on-site interview.
The coding round was fine, the problems I was given, was interesting. The overall conservation was bit dry. In most big tech companies (like Facebook or Apple) recruiters/interviewer always try to engage in some general conversation to sell the role to the candidate first (usually in the separate session over phone) so that candidate can decide if it's worth investing time in the interview. But that was missing from the beginning.
After I cleared the coding round I was invited for the Virtual On-Site which was 4-5 back to back interview in one day.
Some of the interviewers were not very thoroughly prepared, didn't have a share codepad or white boarding application/link in hand. So I ended up sharing my screen and typing in TextApp which are not meant for writing codes.
Although some of the engineers were really friendly and engaged in interesting conversation about various aspects of Software Engineering and day to day work.
But after the interview ended I never heard back from them again.
It's quite natural or normal that I was not selected. But what I find really bad and unprofessional is that even after 6-7 months they never bothered to send an automated rejection email.
I have been interviewed in Facebook, and was rejected and the recruiter was courteous enough to call me personally to break the bad news.
I have been interviewed in Apple, twice, and was rejected in the first attempt, and again the recruiter send some level of feedback and rejection news with in 2 days (got the offer in the second attempt).
So from my perspective the overall experience is really bad and it felt very unprofessional that you expected someone to invest few weeks of their life to prepare and attend interviews but you don't have time to simply click a button to trigger rejection email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Overall question around algorithm and data structure.
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