46 first-hand experiences · See open roles at Goldman Sachs Group
Goldman Sachs runs one of the most standardised funnels on Wall Street: an online application, then a recorded HireVue video interview (a handful of behavioural prompts plus one question per division applied to, with seconds to prepare and about two minutes to record), then a Superday of three to five short back-to-back interviews with VPs, MDs and team members. Front-office and corporate divisions lean heavily behavioural at Superday with technicals layered in by division (markets views and a stock pitch in S&T, accounting and valuation in IB, probability and stochastic calculus in quant/strats, credit case studies in risk). Engineering and strats candidates get an extra quantitative gate first: a timed HackerRank or on-campus test mixing coding, advanced aptitude and CS fundamentals, followed by multiple hour-long CoderPad interviews, which is the dominant pattern for the large India engineering base in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
These 46 writeups cover investment banking, sales and trading, quantitative research and other roles. All of them were posted under a pseudonym (Reddit, GeeksforGeeks or forum handles), so we could not verify the authors’ identities.
Most frequently reported · Behavioral(38), Data structures & algorithms(22), Domain knowledge(19), Resume deep-dive(18), Past projects(10)
Goldman's own student pages lay out the funnel it expects candidates to follow: research the firm and register for My GS Events, submit an application (you hear back at least three times over the season), then a first interview that is a roughly 30-minute video interview, with engineering applicants additionally taking a HackerRank assessment. Candidates who clear the HireVue are invited to Superday, described as a series of final-round interviews, typically two to five for campus hires depending on division, with a cross-section of people you could end up working with.
Read Goldman Sachs Group’s own hiring page →285 open roles in our index.
Behavioral·STAR stories·Resume deep-dive·Data structures & algorithms·Dynamic programming·Arrays & strings·Trees·Puzzles·Aptitude·Probability·Financial modeling·Domain knowledge·Low-level design·System design·SQL·DBMS·OOP·Operating systems·Case study·Past projects·Market sizing
Not selected2 rounds
A recorded video interview for the London S&T programme, taken before any live conversation.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Three back-to-back half-hour interviews, mostly fit-driven, with a few questions probing views on broader market trends.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, referred) on wso · 2025-10-01
Not selected2 rounds
Recorded interview mixing behavioural prompts with market questions; this candidate was fast-tracked straight to the final round afterwards.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Live interviews covering fit, market-making style questions, questions tied to the markets areas listed on the CV, and a stock pitch.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge, Stock pitch
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, London) on wso · 2025-11-01
Not selected2 rounds
Recorded screen that led directly to the final round with no intervening live call.
Covered · Behavioral
Three interviews with senior members of the group: the first purely fit, the second on industry trends plus more fit, and the third entirely technical on infrastructure investing from both the debt and the equity angle.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge, Financial modeling
Shared by WSO contributor (referred candidate) on wso · 2026-01-01
Received an offer2 rounds
Recorded video round reached directly after attending an Explore Goldman Sachs event, which moved the application forward without a separate screen.
Covered · Behavioral
Two separate Superdays for two different wealth groups, roughly two months after the HireVue, almost entirely behavioural with a single technical question on insurance relevant to the group; one was a two-on-one panel and the other one-on-one.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Albany) on wso · 2026-05-01
Not selected2 rounds
Recorded application-stage video interview for the operations intern posting.
Covered · Behavioral
Three back-to-back twenty-minute calls a few weeks later; the candidate was told afterwards that each interviewer was deliberately assessing a different competency (experience fit, a specific skillset, and general communication).
Covered · Behavioral, STAR stories
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Salt Lake City) on wso · 2026-01-01
Received an offer3 rounds
Recorded video interview taken straight after the online application.
Covered · Behavioral
A Zoom conversation with a recruiter before being released to the team.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
Multiple back-to-back interviews with team members focused on fit, how the candidate prioritises work, and simple operational scenarios.
Covered · Behavioral, Customer scenarios
Shared by WSO contributor (1st year analyst, Dallas) on wso · 2025-05-01
Outcome not shared4 rounds
A timed assessment split into a two-hour coding portion and a one-hour maths portion.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Probability, Aptitude
Standard recorded behavioural and personality questions.
Covered · Behavioral
Opened with introductions and a walk through the resume, then moved into maths and probability questioning.
Covered · Probability, Resume deep-dive, Behavioral
Same opening pattern, then a coding problem covering data structures and object-oriented design.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, OOP
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, New York) on wso · 2024-11-01
Received an offer4 rounds
Recorded video screen at the front of the process.
Covered · Behavioral
Coding problems in the usual competitive-programming style plus multiple-choice maths questions.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Aptitude
Two one-on-one interviews with strats that grilled the candidate's projects and layered technical questions on top.
Covered · Past projects, Probability
A closing one-on-one with a managing director mixing fit, technicals and another pass over the projects.
Covered · Behavioral, Past projects
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Singapore) on wso · 2023-12-01
Received an offer2 rounds
The opening stage bundled a maths section, a coding section and a recorded video response.
Covered · Probability, Data structures & algorithms, Behavioral
Four interviewers across two rooms, two per room; heavily technical with a run of probability and statistics questions plus a coding test at roughly easy-to-medium difficulty.
Covered · Probability, Data structures & algorithms
Shared by WSO contributor (1st year analyst, New York) on wso · 2022-11-01
Not selected2 rounds
A straightforward online coding test before any live interview.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms
Mathematically demanding session that asked the candidate to derive a convolution of uniform random variables in full, code a singleton class in Python, and work through brainteasers and a standard array coding problem.
Covered · Probability, OOP, Puzzles, Data structures & algorithms
Shared by WSO contributor (New York) on wso · 2023-12-01
Not selected2 rounds
Three easy-to-medium coding problems walked through live with a member of the risk management team, who probed the reasoning behind the code.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Debugging
About two hours with two pairs of interviewers: the first pair covered resume, projects, probability brainteasers and a hard stochastic calculus question; the second covered basic options and greeks, another probability puzzle and a diffusion question.
Covered · Probability, Puzzles, Past projects, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (referred candidate, Dallas) on wso · 2025-08-01
Not selected3 rounds
Twelve questions in total, two of them coding problems and the rest maths.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Aptitude
Seven recorded questions with about 45 seconds to prepare and two minutes to answer each; five behavioural and two technical.
Covered · Behavioral, STAR stories
Final round combining behavioural questioning with live coding and technical discussion.
Covered · Behavioral, Data structures & algorithms
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, New York) on wso · 2024-01-01
Not selected2 rounds
Application review before any live stage.
Covered · Resume deep-dive
Roughly an hour with an engineer from the London office solving two easy-to-medium coding problems in a language of the candidate's choice, with follow-ups on time complexity and debugging.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Debugging
Shared by WSO contributor (developer, Warsaw) on wso · 2025-05-01
Not selected4 rounds
An in-person timed test at a designated venue with four sections: coding, aptitude with negative marking, a behavioural section, and CS fundamentals; a shortlist of about 51 students went forward.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Aptitude, Behavioral, DBMS
Covered probability, machine learning, coding, and a walk through the projects on the resume.
Covered · Probability, Machine learning, Data structures & algorithms, Past projects
Deeper CS round including designing an LRU cache alongside database, operating-system and object-oriented fundamentals.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Low-level design, DBMS, Operating systems, OOP
Closing conversation on the resume and the frameworks listed on it; the whole day ran from morning to evening and twelve candidates were shortlisted.
Covered · Resume deep-dive, Past projects
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Bangalore) on wso · 2022-08-01
Not selected2 rounds
Recorded video round emailed out shortly after applying.
Covered · Behavioral
Three back-to-back interviews, each with two interviewers, dominated by resume questions plus a couple of short case studies and some deliberately tricky questions.
Covered · Resume deep-dive, Case study
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Dallas) on wso · 2026-04-01
Outcome not shared2 rounds
Recorded round after a resume drop, including an ethics scenario about a client asking for something against firm policy and a straightforward motivation question.
Covered · Behavioral, Regulatory compliance
Three back-to-back 25-minute interviews with panels of two or three people from the hiring team; more technical than the HireVue, covering how the three financial statements link plus harder behavioural questions on conflict and dilemmas, with heavy follow-up questioning. Entirely remote.
Covered · Financial modeling, Behavioral, Conflict handling
Shared by WSO contributor (summer associate, New York) on wso · 2024-04-01
Not selected2 rounds
Six recorded questions mostly about personality and campus-style situations, with the last two asking the candidate to distinguish asset management from sales and trading inside a bank.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Three rounds each with two interviewers, mixing personality and situational questions with a couple of questions on investment philosophy; no real technicals. Response took about six weeks.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Chicago) on wso · 2023-07-01
Outcome not shared2 rounds
Four to six relaxed phone conversations with managers and current employees, largely testing how clearly the candidate articulates ideas over the phone, including a view on the market.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
A 45-minute session in front of a panel of about five employees. Four fund pitch decks were sent a week ahead and the candidate was put into a role-play, with base-level questions on each fund's history and performance.
Covered · Sales roleplay, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (1st year analyst, Chicago) on wso · 2022-11-01
Outcome not shared3 rounds
Mostly motivational: why wealth management, why the firm, a resume walkthrough and light markets talk.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
Two virtual conversations with advisors centred on client scenarios such as difficult clients and market volatility, plus basic macro and asset allocation questions.
Covered · Customer scenarios, Domain knowledge
Three 30-minute interviews weighted towards fit, communication and how the candidate would build and sustain client relationships over time.
Covered · Behavioral, Customer scenarios
Shared by WSO contributor (New York) on wso · 2026-01-01
Not selected1 round
A bilingual day run roughly 60% in English and 40% in Mandarin: six one-on-one sessions, then a group debate, a written essay and a Q&A. Questions recurred across the one-on-ones, suggesting a fixed question list.
Covered · Domain knowledge, Behavioral
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Hong Kong) on wso · 2024-11-01
Received an offer1 round
Four interviews split between motivation-focused behavioural questioning and technical work, the technical element being a short case study analysing a company's credit risk and recommending mitigants.
Covered · Case study, Domain knowledge, Behavioral
Shared by WSO contributor (2nd year analyst, Hong Kong) on wso · 2023-08-01
Received an offer4 rounds
Application submitted in mid-August for an autumn cycle.
Covered · Resume deep-dive
About six recorded questions: a resume walkthrough, four or five situational prompts, and one division-specific question per division applied to (an M&A deal for banking, a stock for markets).
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Three back-to-back one-to-one interviews run out of a shared Zoom lobby with breakout rooms, strongly behavioural and targeted at CV detail down to extracurriculars; unanswered technicals were let go, but interviewers pressed on reasoning.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
Decision typically landed about two weeks after Superday, though some candidates heard within days.
Covered · Behavioral
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, London) on wso · 2025-10-01
Not selected2 rounds
Recorded round reached through an accelerated diversity programme.
Covered · Behavioral
Three 20-minute interviews with traders and salespeople from different groups, each roughly half behavioural and half markets; the hardest technical concerned credit spreads and their relationship to SOFR, and other market questions were follow-ups on the candidate's own answers.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, New York) on wso · 2025-02-01
Received an offer2 rounds
A coding test at the front of the process.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms
Interviews with two VPs covering coding questions and some system design, described by the candidate as comfortably manageable.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, System design
Shared by WSO contributor (Dallas) on wso · 2021-12-01
Received an offer2 rounds
Recorded round completed shortly after a New Year application.
Covered · Behavioral
Three 20-minute interviews about a month later, conducted by VP-level and more senior people drawn from different teams.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, New York) on wso · 2025-02-01
Outcome not shared3 rounds
A walk through prior work with pressure on the assumptions behind it and follow-ups that challenged individual parts of the analysis, plus noticeable weight on accounting and financial statements.
Covered · Resume deep-dive, Financial modeling
Combined motivation and working-style questions with discussion of business performance, transactions and capital structure.
Covered · Behavioral, Financial modeling, Domain knowledge
Conversation about the economy, industry trends, drivers of deal activity and the associated risks.
Covered · Domain knowledge, Market sizing
Shared by WSO contributor (referred candidate) on wso · 2025-01-01
Outcome not shared4 rounds
Two informal chats with the school's recruiting captains covering background, group interests and motivation, used to decide whether to pass the candidate on.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
Further chats with people in the target industry group, ranging from informational to genuinely technical depending on the individual; a good impression here produces the first-round invite.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
A pure technical screen after brief introductions, covering accounting effects across the three statements, valuation topics such as how tax changes flow through WACC and computing enterprise value from an income statement, plus a merger-math question.
Covered · Financial modeling, Domain knowledge
Three 30-minute interviews back to back: a slightly easier repeat of the technical screen, then brainteasers, mental maths and a dice probability question, and finally a fit conversation on where the firm ranks in the candidate's process.
Covered · Financial modeling, Puzzles, Behavioral
Shared by WSO contributor (summer associate, New York) on wso · 2025-01-01
Not selected1 round
A single 30-minute video conversation mixing fit with core banking technicals: a self-introduction, what the candidate follows in markets, walking through the three financial statements, a paper LBO and general valuation questions.
Covered · Behavioral, Financial modeling, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (referred candidate, Boston) on wso · 2024-02-01
Not selected2 rounds
Recorded first round for a summer analyst cycle in New York.
Covered · Behavioral
Three 20-minute rounds about three weeks later with five interviewers at associate and VP level, covering motivation for the firm and the division, a deal the candidate was following, and resume detail.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge, Resume deep-dive
Shared by WSO contributor (New York) on wso · 2026-02-01
Not selected2 rounds
An invitation earned through networking; the firm flew candidates to the Chicago office for information sessions and meetings with bankers, with a live first round with two analysts at the very end of the day.
Covered · Behavioral
Three 30-minute interviews handed out days later, limited to the groups actually hiring interns that year.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (intern, Chicago) on wso · 2024-02-01
Received an offer2 rounds
Recorded round leading directly into the final stage.
Covered · Behavioral
Three consecutive 25-minute interviews nominally split into behavioural, technical and case study, though interviewers moved between the three at will; technicals were moderate but the case questions were unlike standard banking ones.
Covered · Behavioral, Financial modeling, Case study
Shared by WSO contributor (summer associate, New York) on wso · 2025-02-01
Received an offer4 rounds
Two technical sessions, one of which included a case study.
Covered · Financial modeling, Case study
Four or more conversations with mid-level bankers.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
Two senior-level fit interviews closing out a process the candidate described as seven-plus steps.
Covered · Behavioral
An unusually exhaustive background screening after the interviews.
Covered · Regulatory compliance
Shared by WSO contributor (1st year associate, Irving TX) on wso · 2025-05-01
Received an offer3 rounds
Online application with resume, cover letter and division plus location preferences.
Covered · Resume deep-dive
Four to six behavioural questions with about 30 seconds to prepare and up to two minutes to answer each.
Covered · Behavioral, STAR stories
Three to four final interviews with analysts, associates and VPs weighing technical knowledge, leadership and problem solving.
Covered · Behavioral, Domain knowledge
Shared by WSO contributor (1st year analyst, San Francisco) on wso · 2023-06-01
Received an offer4 rounds
Opening conversation on background and career goals.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
A skills assessment plus individual interviews focused on Python proficiency and on how the candidate had architected a complex derivatives modelling platform.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, System design, Past projects
A group session and a presentation demonstrating how the candidate explains high-level engineering concepts to a team.
Covered · Past projects, Behavioral
A closing personality test used as a culture-fit check.
Covered · Behavioral
Shared by WSO contributor (1st year analyst, New York) on wso · 2026-02-01
Received an offer4 rounds
A 120-minute test with two medium-to-hard coding problems, sent by a recruiter who found the candidate's profile on a job board.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms
Three interviews, each with two interviewers on CoderPad, running 60 to 90 minutes. Content spanned string and array problems, matrix path dynamic programming, implementing a dynamic array from scratch with complexity analysis of each operation, and recognising when two problems reduce to the same recurrence.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming, Data structures & algorithms, Low-level design
A shorter round pairing one hard algorithmic problem with a couple of puzzles.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Puzzles
Closing managerial conversation on the same day as the technical block; the offer followed a few weeks later.
Covered · Past projects, Behavioral
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2024-04-22
Not selected4 rounds
A 30-minute video call on background, career goals and motivation for the strats role and the division.
Covered · Behavioral, Resume deep-dive
An hour of problem solving over video: a chessboard shortest-path problem solved by spotting the movement pattern, and a classic array problem the candidate could not finish in time.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings
A two-interviewer panel that opened with a logic puzzle the candidate could not close, then moved through number manipulation with edge cases such as overflow and an array problem that had to be optimised from sorting to hashing.
Covered · Puzzles, Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
Held 15 minutes after the previous round: a stack-based string reduction problem, then a numerical precision problem solved by binary search that the candidate struggled to implement to the required precision.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2025-06-10
Outcome not shared5 rounds
Two easy coding problems on an online judge, one a string compression task and one an ad-hoc matrix problem; a response came roughly two weeks after applying.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
A CoderPad session with an IDE and a whiteboard area, language of the candidate's choice, covering an aggregation problem and a classic array problem with follow-ups.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
Two more problems, including one requiring simulation of colliding elements in an array and an optimisation follow-up on space usage.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
A geometry-flavoured counting problem, then discussion of work experience and an explanation of a design pattern of the candidate's choosing.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, OOP, Past projects
A full design round: model a utility-bill payment interface with classes for the entities and services or APIs for authentication and payment, then extend into the supporting high-level design covering caching, auth tokens and scale.
Covered · Low-level design, System design, API design, Scalability
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2025-09-05
Not selected4 rounds
An aptitude plus technical screening test that gated entry to the interview day.
Covered · Aptitude, Data structures & algorithms
A CoderPad session covering a binary search tree traversal question and a string-edit dynamic programming problem the candidate reframed as longest common subsequence.
Covered · Trees, Dynamic programming
Started on SQL and the technologies listed on the resume, then moved to cycle detection in a linked list and a greedy cost-minimisation problem.
Covered · SQL, Data structures & algorithms, Past projects
A late-evening round with a senior interviewer on projects, the internals of hash maps and collision handling, and a two-pointer array problem.
Covered · Past projects, Data structures & algorithms, DBMS
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2023-12-28
Received an offer4 rounds
Introductions and interest areas, then a sliding-window array problem that the interviewer wanted implemented in one specific way.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings
Broad fundamentals: object orientation and polymorphism, normalisation and ACID properties, processes versus threads, deadlock, plus a graph problem the candidate recognised as topological sort, discussed rather than coded.
Covered · OOP, DBMS, Operating systems, Concurrency, Graphs
Abstract classes versus interfaces, then writing the database schema and relationships for one of the candidate's own projects, then an open-ended design of an auctioning system covering key features and tables.
Covered · OOP, DBMS, System design, Past projects
A senior team member covering an obstacle faced on a project, motivation behind personal projects, the final-year project, and a direct question about competing offers, followed by a long description of the team's work.
Covered · Behavioral, Past projects
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2021-07-21
Received an offer5 rounds
An hour of algorithms covering a subarray-sum problem and a binary tree property check.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Trees
An hour on big data fundamentals, Spark, HDFS and YARN, why PySpark exists, JVM behaviour, Scala versus Java and RDDs versus DataFrames, plus a coding task implementing diff logic.
Covered · Domain knowledge, Data structures & algorithms, Concurrency
Data modelling, normalisation and normal forms, ER diagrams and key types, plus a greedy scheduling coding problem.
Covered · SQL, DBMS, Data structures & algorithms
A 90-minute session on distributed file systems and columnar versus row file formats, designing a collaborative coding environment down to classes and functions, and a streaming-median coding question.
Covered · System design, Domain knowledge, Data structures & algorithms
A 45-minute conversation led by a business head on reasons for leaving the current employer and motivation for the firm; the offer came at the end of it.
Covered · Behavioral
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2021-12-13
Outcome not shared5 rounds
Two medium coding problems in 120 minutes after an employee referral.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms
A one-hour single-interviewer round starting with introductions and follow-ups, then two hash-map problems where the interviewer pushed each solution from brute force to an optimised single-map design.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
Two interviewers covering the candidate's current data-analytics role and its development lifecycle, a SQL query to delete a duplicate row, then a string repetition problem the candidate could not fully pass.
Covered · SQL, Arrays & strings, Resume deep-dive
Two interviewers on the resume and day-to-day work, then a duplicates-within-a-window array problem worked from brute force through a dry run and complexity discussion.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms, Resume deep-dive
The recruiter had flagged in advance that after the two eliminatory technical rounds there would be an HR conversation on the same day.
Covered · Behavioral
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2024-09-06
Received an offer4 rounds
A five-section test: two easy-to-medium coding problems, eight aptitude questions, eight CS fundamentals questions across OOP, DBMS, OS and a language, one hard graph problem, and two written situational questions requiring fast typing.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Aptitude, OOP, DBMS, Behavioral
About 40 minutes: a project deep-dive with database questions including SQL versus NoSQL trade-offs, then a binary tree traversal problem with a space-optimisation follow-up.
Covered · Past projects, DBMS, Trees
Opened with a chessboard movement puzzle to expose the candidate's general problem-solving strategy, then a partition-into-equal-subsets problem taken from recursion to a dynamic programming formulation.
Covered · Puzzles, Dynamic programming
Four fit questions on time management, project motivation and social impact, then a counterfeit-coin style puzzle and a heap-based greedy problem.
Covered · Behavioral, Past projects, Puzzles, Data structures & algorithms
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2021-09-07
Outcome not shared2 rounds
A hiring manager call setting expectations on the role and the candidate profile.
Covered · Resume deep-dive, Behavioral
Two consecutive one-hour interviews with different panellists. The first covered binary search trees and their use, mental arithmetic answered verbally, designing a load balancer including update and rollback behaviour, inferring user location without geolocation, and an interval-overlap scenario problem. The second covered finding the tightest interval containing a value without sorting, and locating the second smallest element without sorting.
Covered · Trees, System design, Data structures & algorithms, Aptitude
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2021-09-27
Not selected3 rounds
Two problems: detecting and measuring a cycle formed by following index pointers through an array, and computing a maximum average from name and score pairs including negative values.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
Linked list fundamentals and when to prefer them over dynamic arrays, an alternating linked-list reordering problem, and grouping anagrams.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Arrays & strings
Opened on the candidate's most recent feature and its impact, then product-of-array-except-self with emphasis on test cases, a data-structure choice question for storing per-user access data, and a binary tree subtree-balance problem.
Covered · Past projects, Arrays & strings, Trees, Data structures & algorithms
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2024-05-20
Outcome not shared4 rounds
A 90-minute, 66-question aptitude test with six sections spanning numerical computation, numerical reasoning, abstract, logical and diagrammatic reasoning, and verbal, timed as a whole rather than per section.
Covered · Aptitude, Puzzles
A month-long block of assigned online courses shortlisted candidates had to complete before the technical test, covering algorithms, CS fundamentals and some machine learning modules.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Machine learning
About twenty items: two coding problems, eight advanced quantitative aptitude questions, seven or eight CS fundamentals questions and two written situational questions. This candidate advanced despite only partially solving the coding problems, which suggests the sections are weighted rather than gated on code alone.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Aptitude, Behavioral
A Zoom interview run through breakout rooms, opening with self-introduction, preceded by a firm-run mentoring session with GS leaders to familiarise candidates with the process.
Covered · Resume deep-dive, Data structures & algorithms
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2023-07-03
Outcome not shared3 rounds
A 90-minute online test with a run-length encoding problem and a digit-decoding counting problem, both with stated linear-time expectations.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Dynamic programming
Live CoderPad sessions with Goldman engineers covering anagram grouping, parsing a file of student marks to find the top average, and an index-cost aggregation problem.
Covered · Arrays & strings, Data structures & algorithms
N-queens solved with recursion and backtracking, then implementing a versioned snapshot array supporting set, snap and historical get.
Covered · Data structures & algorithms, Low-level design
Shared by GeeksforGeeks contributor (handle not exposed) on gfg · 2021-06-21
These guides summarize public, first-hand interview experiences shared by candidates. They describe the shape of each loop and the topics that came up, not a leaked question bank, and every experience links back to its original source. Processes change often; treat this as directional prep, not a script.
