Goldman Sachs Software Developer interview questions

I had two interview processes because the first role was cancelled due to covid. First process: Round 1: 1 hour phone interview including an easy and a hard/medium programming problem. Round 2: Four 1 hour video conferencing interviews. One data structures, one algorithms, one system design and one more general. Round 3: Three 30 minute interviews. One technical with the team lead, two more casual discussions with managers in the team, talking about the role rather than assessing me. Second process: Four 1 hour video conferencing interviews. One data structures, one algorithms, one system design and one more general. It took a several months to be given an offer after the second process. Originally they went with another candidate however gave me an offer several months later once the team had approval to hire more team members. Most of the interviewers were very friendly and easy to talk to. The interviews themselves were relatively pleasant experiences. Overall the process was very slow. The recruiter was very good, always responded very quickly and politely to my questions and was apologetic about the delays.

The first round is hackarrank test with medium level difficulty questions. Its the 2nd coderpad round which does injustice to most of the applicants. There is no standard defined by GS for the difficulty level of questions in this round. While one candidate may be asked to find 2nd largest element in an array at the same time another can be asked questions on trie along with proper coverage of various edge cases. This is my request to Gs to set some defined difficulty level to questions in coder pad round as this round is time bound. Because of injustice done in this round many deserving candidates don’t even make it to the next rounds.