Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Goldman Sachs with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 54% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 160 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Goldman Sachs overall takes an average of 19 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Goldman Sachs as a Software Engineer according to 160 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Phone interview: 14%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 10%
Personality test: 8%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Other: 6%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through university. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Interview
Two rounds: one on campus consisting of two back to back 30 minute interviews and one on site consisting of two back to back 30 minute interviews. For each round, the first 30 minute interview was behavioral + technical and the second was purely technical
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
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