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 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 Developer according to 393 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 through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY)
Interview
Invited to diversity event. At diversity event spoke with multiple senior members of teams and Managing Directors. Then invited to a super day at nj office with multiple teams from different tech divisions. Then another full day in nyc and nj offices after that with the teams that I liked the most. Met with an MD from each tech division I was interested in that day. Each full day had about 8 interviews each. Interviews were generally discussions. Depended on your interviewer what you discussed. Not many coding questions and they were pretty easy. Coding questions were algorithms and recursion. Process is very long during interview phase, but during the interview ask as many questions as you desire. I learned a lot about the company during the interview process (division and team structure - got a whole drawn out picture, expectations, what people do on a day-to-day, where requirements come from, competition, end of year reviews, promotions, bonuses, etc) and everyone was very helpful answering questions. If multiple teams/divisions give you an offer, you get to pick your team/division. That's a nice feature. MDs are very involved and will help you choose the best spot for you even if it's not with their team.
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]
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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