I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in May 2010
Interview
I had a total of 9 interviews held during two days. The interviews were increasing in difficulty as I was progressing and the interviewers were increasing in rank as I was progressing. On the first day, I spoke with a total of five people. The questions were very basic and the people were very nice. I answered the questions well and it was relaxed. The questions were mostly technical, but there was some casual conversation involved. By the end of the day, the last interviewer I spoke with mentioned to me that I have been competing against people with more experience, and that my chances were slim but that my resume stood out and that there was a reason why some of the interviewers pushed my resume.
On the second day, I had another four interviews. One of my interviewers came in out-of-order and kept looking at his watch throughout the interview. He gave me a ball buster type interview. Another person that came in asked me a simple technical question which I did very well on. In response, they had the next interviewer grill me on a difficult technical question.
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
One OA and coding round
I failed at first round since I cannot solve that lc problem, interviewer is from the office out of Japan,
OA is easy, got help with AI you can easily passed it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
one hard lc question.
4. Median of Two Sorted Arrays
They said it's a 1:15-minute interview, but I finished in 40 mins. Starting with my previous work experience and projects, they asked 3 cultural questions and 3 coding questions, and I asked them 2 questions about the role, and I finished it.