I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Feb 2018
Interview
1. Hacker rank test
2. Coder pad test
3. 'N' number of F2F interviews followed by 3 F2F interviews.
It was my first Goldman sachs experience and I don't want any more of it. I was excited about the reviews etc. It was a total waste of time for me. Recruitment takes awful lot of time..few months. There are literally 'N' number of interviews. And, people are so egocentric... some of the panel would barely speak and if they speak, you will not understand a word. I was hoping that GS would have credible tech peers....but, I had huge disappointment and I had other offers...so I quit the process.
Questions are random, you will find on internet... geeksforgeeks etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. arrange a string of B,W... input like "BBWBWBBEBBBWWW"
2. x > 0, a >= 0 && a < x, count number of such 'a' where a + x = a xor x.
3. some design questions on client server architecture.
4. unique pointer implementation.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Interview
Initial 1hr phone interview with an Executive Director - mainly reviewing CV and a few technical questions, was given an overview of the role and the team. No "What do you know about Goldman? Why do you want to work here? Why are you moving on?" style questions at all. Within about 1 week I was called in for an onsite interview consisting of 5 x 1 hour interviews (with a 1hr break between the 2nd and 3rd interview). Each interview had 2 interviewers, some were local and some were remote via video-conference, some were directly part of the team and some were more loosely aligned. Interviews consisted of in-depth technical questions relating directly to either the role or to items from my CV. In 5 hours of interviewing I was not asked one question about Goldman, the only sort of non-technical question I was asked was along the lines of "What was your worst mistake at work."
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Bengaluru) in Feb 2011
Interview
Very comprehensive interviews with about 14 different people in the department. It lasted several days and included phone screenings, followed by video conferences with multiple people. The topic ranged from client-side technologies to server-side technologies and database skills.