I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (London, England) in Apr 2018
Interview
I was referred by a friend. I interviewed at London, UK. The process took nearly 4 weeks.
Round 1: Coder Pad interview: 2 questions that I solved in 40 minutes. They are not so hard, greedy algorithms + mathematical puzzles style
Round 2: On-site round 1: problem solving with data structure: Binary Search Tree, HashMap
Round 3: On-site round 2: problem solving that you can formulate as find number of connected components in a graph (so use DFS), sorting
Round 4: On-site round 3: problem solving related to database: Hadoop style question
Round 5: On-site round 4: System design: design a system that supports review and send documents, how to scale
Round 6: On-site round 5: Behavioural questions (how to deal with deadline, motivation, etc.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which data structure would you use to formulate a collection of (user, threshold stock price) so that you can alert the user whenever stock price in the market goes below (or above) the threshold value.
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
One OA and coding round
I failed at first round since I cannot solve that lc problem, interviewer is from the office out of Japan,
OA is easy, got help with AI you can easily passed it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
one hard lc question.
4. Median of Two Sorted Arrays
They said it's a 1:15-minute interview, but I finished in 40 mins. Starting with my previous work experience and projects, they asked 3 cultural questions and 3 coding questions, and I asked them 2 questions about the role, and I finished it.
