I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Interview
I am writing this with immense pain and frustration with the way my interview was conducted over last month. To say that the whole exercise was an ordeal and appeared a farce would be an understatement.
I will try to walk you through the entire experience so that people are aware.
1) Interviewer was (or at least appeared ) biased towards MS program. He\She made multiple remarks which seemed to give away the notion that he had a prejudice towards the students.
2) Inexplicable delay: My interview process started on DATE and went till DATE. During this period, there were times when there was no communication on the status and I was left to wander, if my candidature was being processed at all. I really don’t think that a respected and professional organization, should have such substandard outreach towards prospective employees.
3) Finally, my candidature was rejected and I was told that my skill set don’t match the requirement. Again, this seems nothing but a blatant disregard to common professional practices. My resume was vetted and selected based on the requirement. My interview too, was conducted for the same. I had a very good interaction and I was called for multiple rounds(to be very precise 6 interviews) based on my performance. Then how can, after all the time and effort I invested in this process, I be told that my skills are not the one that they need? If my answers were dis satisfactory, then same should have been communicated to me.
I decided to bring this to your notice as I was really excited and looking forward to working with the esteemed organization, or so i thought. Even at the least, I considered it to be a true test of my mettle. What ensued was a bitter and distressing experience to say the least. An organization, that prides itself on extreme high quality of Employee satisfaction, cannot be expected to have such low standard hiring process. I do understand that this only represents my side of story and hence will be biased.
Finally what disappointed me the most was not the result of the interview but the whole process itself. I expected more standards out of such a big organization but the standards they displayed were so low that I am happy not to be a part of this organization.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Guwahati) in Aug 2017
Interview
An online test comprising of three sections : Maths, Coding and Machine Learning. Maths was entirely based on probability and combinations, having Gambler's ruin based problems in plenty. Coding section was easy. ML section had basic theoretical questions, that can be found in quizzes of Introduction to Machine Learning on Coursera.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a circular array, find whether a number is power of 2 in constant time.
I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in May 2017
Interview
I was contacted over the phone by the HR.
I was scheduled a technical telephonic interview next week.
My Interview was taken by a Asian guy, who's main concentration was on coding skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I introduced myself.
He jumped to coding question :
First question : Given a sorted array which has been rotated k times , need to find k?
Second Question : Given a binary tree find the maximum sum from leaf to leaf?
THird Question : Same as Second now i need to optimize it to work from any node to node?