I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Dallas, TX) in Apr 2020
Interview
The process was about 4 weeks long. I had applied through Employee Referral at Goldman Sachs. It was basically two coderpads interview, followed by one final interview.
Because of the pandemic, final rounds were virtual online video interviews for about 2 hours.
Coderpad round 1: Basically, two questions with some follow up question
Coderpad round 2: One question and a few behavioral questions
Final round: Whiteboarding, 3- 4 coding questions. Please take your time to review and understand the question. Lastly, wrapped up the session by asking questions about the work culture and tools and technologies used.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Codepad question:
1. Implement a Deque with some follow up on optimization part (solved with Doubly Linked List)
2. Given name and grades of students, print the name along with the maximum avg score
Hint: Similar to leetcode high five problem, but you need to print the highest avg score.
Can be solved using hashmap and taking running sum along with the counts
3. (Don't exactly remember) Given a named tuple, with intervals and price, print the lowest price between the intervals, based on the start and end time
I used heapq for this implementation
Final rounds:
(Leetcode)
Coin Change with some modifications
Subarrays with KDifferent integers Variation)
Decode ways variation
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Chennai) in Aug 2020
Interview
Aptitude test totally questions were asked from all topics. Data interpretation and logical reasoning was given more focus, they never select students from tier 2 or 3 colleges, they just prefer IITs, Nits and other tier 1 colleges.
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Question 1
I didn't qualify for the interview, they only select students from tier 1colleges
Online Written round (aptitude) ,bit tough questions.almost there are many categories. Quants ,verbal,comprehension,picture related Questions.Time is not Sufficient.also having Negative marking.Quants little bit tough as compared to other Modules.for c mcq basic concepts only asked.
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Question 1
mostly time work related questions are asked in quants section.