Goldman Sachs visited our college for On-campus for Summer Analyst Role-2023
- Initially there was an OA which included Aptitude Questions, 2-coding questions ( topics: Dynamic programming) and 2 descriptive questions like Mention a situation where you worked in a team.
- Post OA , 25 students were shortlisted for the interview.
- There were a total of 2-Rounds for me.
Round-1:
- Round-1 was mostly technical. Initially , Interviewer asked me to introduce myself and then asked me about my projects. I explained my projects and then Interviewer asked me whether if I’m comfortable with Linked-List. I said yes and then there were totally 2 questions:
- Reverse a doubly Linked List – both iterative and recursive: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/reverse-a-doubly-linked-list/amp/
- Find Cycle in a linked list : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/detect-loop-in-a-linked-list/amp/
Post these, there were questions from OOPS:
- What is OOPs
- Explain 4 pillars of OOPs
P.S: Make yourself clear about all the OOPs topics and even try practicing code for each of them.
Few recommended topics from OOPs: Basics, four pillars of OOPs, Multiple Inheritance, Diamond Problem, Virtual keyword, Friend classes, C++ vs Java, Disadvantages of OOPs.
Round-2:
- Interviewer asked me how was my round -1 and then started going through my resume and we had a discussion on my projects.
- There was a question on Trie : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/trie-insert-and-search/amp/
- Post this there was a question on Git concepts. Interviewer asked me about the data structure used for Merge Conflict in Git ( Ans: Hash Table)
- Then he gave me a puzzle :https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzle-7-find-the-jar-with-contaminated-pills/amp/
- Post this , he was satisfied with my answer and he discussed about the work culture in GS
P.S: Solve Gfg puzzles , these are asked in almost most of the interviews https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzles/amp/
Final verdict: 5 out of 25 were selected and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.