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%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs in Mar 2023
Interview
A call with recruiter and then with manager and the one problem solving round. In the problem solving interview asked medium level problem and was having difficulty in understanding basic solution. Wasted lot of my time in explaining him and since he himself wasnt well versed with problem solving it wasted lot of my time in explanation and left me with 15 mins only for the implementation and rather then he was diverting from the problem. Could have easily solved the problem without interviewer interference in 10 mins but he kept on asking stupid questions and for dry run multiple times. Worst interview experience, they should train their employees on problem solving then put them in interview panel.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Project, skills and practice discussion with manager and then in problem solving how many total rocks will be collected from start point to target point
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