Goldman Sachs – Associate (Bengaluru)
I was contacted by HR on LinkedIn.
Online Coding Round (Hackerrank 1 hour 30 min)
- https://www.csestack.org/coding-challenge-special-elements-in-matrix/
- https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/connected-cell-in-a-grid/problem
After a week, I was contacted by HR, and they scheduled a telephonic screening round
CoderPad Telephonic Round (1 hour)
- https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Interview/Coderpad-given-an-array-scores-jerry-65-bob-91-jerry-23-Eric-83-Find-the-student-with-hi-QTN_2587199.htm
- Trapping Rain Water
After 2 days, I was contacted by HR and they asked my availability for next rounds
DS Round 1 (1 hour)
- https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-smallest-element-in-a-bst/
- https://leetcode.com/problems/top-k-frequent-words/
DS Round 2 (1 hour)
- Longest Palindromic Subsequence
- External sorting
- Necessary conditions for Deadlock
- Java Garbage Collection
Design Round 1 (1 hour)
- Implement a Map interface where every key value pair of Map has to be associated with TTL(time to live) – Discussed demand based clean up and thread pool based clean up
- Design Swiggy (Specific questions on Fault tolerance, ensuring High availability etc.)
Hiring Manager round (1 hour)
- Questions about my project, previous role
- Situational question – Personal interests conflicting with organisational needs
- Discussed my role at GS
I recommend GeeksforGeeks, leetcode for interview preparation. Good luck.