Goldman Sachs Interview Experience (Software Engineer 2022)

Last Updated : 05 Apr, 2024

I got this opportunity through LinkedIn, where a recruiter messaged me that he liked my profile and wanted me to participate in the interview process, and I accepted that opportunity. The recruiter called me by phone, asked for a convenient time to write the online assessment, and told me a particular date he sent me the exam link and said I can write within the next 5 days.

Round – 1 ( Online Assessment): I wrote the online assessment which consists of two coding problems, the questions are :

Similar to Coin Change problem. First I tried a normal recursive approach, just to see if all test cases passes, and it got passed all the cases. But just for the safe side, I wrote the optimal approach using Dynamic Programming.
Another Question is Count Connections in Matrix, I took a bit of time, but solved it finally.
So finally, done with both questions with optimal solutions and submitted the assessment.
After a few days, I got a call from the recruiter that they want to schedule the next Coder Pad round and I said my convenient time and politely scheduled on that date.

Round – 2 ( Coder Pad Interview) :

I got an invitation mail which consists of a Coder pad link along with a Zoom meet link.
I joined the meeting on the allocated time.
The interviewer was very cool and interactive. He told me about him and jumped from the coding section to the coder pad.
I faced two questions in this round, where the questions are :
- The first question was First Non-repeating character in a string, I first told the brute force approach with nested for loops, told the time and space complexities, and optimized it using HashMap.
- The second question was similar to Unique Paths, I first told the brute force approach using DFS and optimized it using Dynamic Programming
So finally solved both the questions and the interviewer was happy with my solutions.
Interviewer as if I had any questions, and I asked about the company and work we do there.
He kindly explained about that and was done with the coder pad interview.

Round – 3 ( Technical Interview ) :

Told to introduce myself and they introduced themselves.
Asked questions related to Java and related Java8 features
Asked to implement how can I find duplicate elements in list using Streams API.
Asked a Coding Question, which related to Graphs, similar to starting and ending stations , trains kinda question.
Finally done with this round.

Round – 4 ( Technical Interview ) :

Told to introduce myself and they introduced themselves.
Asked questions related to Java and java8
Asked a coding question which is similar to House Robber ;
Asked about the reason why I’m leaving my current company.
Finally done with this round.

Round – 5 (Technical Interview ) :

Told to introduce myself and they introduced themselves.
Asked about my previous work experience and the tech stack I used there.
Based on the project I have done before, he asked me design question.
Design something which does some operations using Multithreading.
The interview went with question only, discussing about the approaches and some follow ups.
Implemented the solution using Java Multi-threading
Finally done with this round

Round – 6 (Hiring Manager Interview) :

He started by introducing himself and asked me to tell about myself starting from my academics along with my experience.
Asked few questions about my previous experience and project I’ve done.
About the tech stack I’ve worked on
Asked about all the contributions at previous companies.
Asked few Behavioral questions, like “why am I leaving current company??” etc..
Asked which tech stack I’m comfortable with, and which team do I want to join??
He asked some Java Questions
Asked to Design Twitter, in high-level, he gave some time to take notes for that.
I explained about the components I’m gonna use.
He asked if I had any questions, and I asked few questions about company.
and Finally done with this round