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 393 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 393 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 online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Interview
Passed their HackerRank online assessment - it was a very easy problem. Did a phone screen with an engineer. He had a very thick accent, but I was given a straightforward (easy-medium difficulty) dynamic programming problem and a trivially easy second problem. Get very good as I reached optimal solutions on both.
And then…radio silence! No email about timeline, nor updates, until nearly 2 months later! I receive an email from another person from HR asking when I can schedule an interview with different engineering teams for what I believe is the virtual on-site interview. I politely decline at this point.
This was probably the most convoluted and unnecessarily-painful-for-the-candidate interview pipeline I’ve participated in.
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Questions straight from Leetcode top GS problems; reverse a list in place
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.
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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
First round was hackerrank assessment having 2 coding questions. Then after clearing that, the first round of interview had Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score. I was not able to do it. Interviewer was very nice though
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score