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No Offer – Reviewed Mar 20, 2013
Interview Details – Applied online. Received email one month later to attend Superday. Attended Superday three days after initial email reply and had 9 1:1 interviews. Interview was less than a week ago, no offer received as of this writing.
Interview Question – An analytical question about: Say you have ten stacks of coins with ten coins in each stack, each coin weighing 1g. However, one of the stacks has 2g coins instead of 1g coins. If you have a weighing scale and can only make one measurement, how do you determine which stack of coins weighs 2g each coin? View Answers (5)
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2013 – Reviewed Mar 12, 2013
Interview Details –
First Round: 2:1 interview on campus, roughly half an hour in length. I was asked about my understanding of OOP concepts, as well as my experience with programming. I was asked to write a short code to reverse a string in c++. Pretty straight forward, but they were looking for detailed answers. I am not a Comp Sci student, so there were some questions I couldn't answer right away, but the interviewers gave hints that were helpful. They didn't waste any time going through my resume or asking any behavioral questions.
Second Round (Superday): I had 3 half-hour 1:1 interviews with members of one department. Some other candidate had additional interviews with 2 or 3 departments, 3 interviews for each. Interviews seemed to be more behavioral in my case. All three of my interviewers focused on what I hoped to get out of the internship, and surprisingly little on what I know.
My guess is that the first round was to check for knowledge, and the second round was more focused on fit.
Interview Question – Write a code to reverse a string. Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Feb 2013 – Reviewed Feb 9, 2013
Interview Details – Programming questions, brain teasers, technical questions in java. Discussion about past projects and programming experience
Interview Question –
Number of squares in a nxn chess board(including all combinations);
25 horses, 5 horse per race, how many races to determine top5?
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Accepted Offer – Reviewed Jan 25, 2013
Interview Details – On campus interview with two people. A simple algorithm question, basic OOP principles, and a puzzle or two. On site interview with seven (three different groups). Again, primarily asked basic data structures and OOP. Be ready to talk about yourself, past projects, and answer 'Why Goldman.'
Interview Question – Given an arbitrary dimension n, write a function that outputs a random n-vector of unit length (completely uniform distribution) View Answer
Negotiation Details – accelerated process - had a two week deadline but was able to extend it for another three weeks.
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Dec 2012 – Reviewed Jan 9, 2013
Interview Details –
Handed my resume to some recruiters at a tech conference earlier in October 2012 and got called up for superday for the first accelerated process mid December. They flew me to New York and I was brought to a conference room with about 15 other candidates. We were briefed and handed our interview schedules for the day (which division they put you in etc). I only have one division scheduled with 2 interviews, whereas I know some people who got up to 9 interviews.
So I had my 2 rounds of interviews each with 2 interviewers. They were really nice people and half the interview was me asking questions about the job. They got me to introduce myself a little and talk about my coding experience/ latest coding project. Then they asked a math/logic problem and a coding question. Also expect the standard Why Goldman Sachs question.
I got called about 2 working days later with an offer, which I accepted.
Interview Question – Which data structure would you use to organize a phonebook, and how would you optimize it? View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in Salt Lake City, UT Mar 2011 – Reviewed Mar 27, 2012
Interview Details – I had a 2 on 1 interview after a Career Fair on campus. They called me about a week later to fly me out to Salt Lake. I had three interviews each with three different divisions. Each one had a behavioral, a skills test, and then a technical. The technical interviews were pretty difficult. I stumbled on some of the questions.
Interview Question – How tall is that tree in the distance? Answer Question
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Jersey City, NJ Apr 2011 – Reviewed Sep 27, 2011
Interview Details – First there was a 1:1 interview on campus. I was interviewed by a very friendly person who was a senior manager at the firm. The interview was resume based and behavioral. He asked a lot of questions on the projects I was working on and how would solve certain problems if they came up during the development of my projects. Then I was invited for an On Site interview, where I was interviewed by three people from my team.
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No Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Feb 2010 – Reviewed Feb 24, 2010
Interview Details – Resume passed screening and was selected for on campus interview. Interviewed with two IT People. The interview lasted over half an hour. Repeatedly ask questions like "why goldman sachs". Walk through my resume and asked a few questions. Also was given a couple of brain teasers and one programming question, which I wrote pseudo code for.
Interview Question – Why goldman sachs ? Answer Question
No Offer – Interviewed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – Reviewed Apr 11, 2013
Interview Details –
1st round: a dynamic programming problem. one asked some problem with stock, like how to value a company. a problem with array and asked you how to realize it and the time complexity & space complexity. and asked you to optimize it again and again.
2nd round: 2 people with behavior questions, 1 mainly focus on teamwork. trouble shooting instance. database: index, storage process, basic java knowledge
Interview Question – give one trouble shooting instance View Answer
No Offer – Interviewed in Feb 2010 – Reviewed Feb 15, 2010
Interview Details –
I had applied through my university recruiting. Got selected for the interview after initial screening based on resume.
Interview was mostly about what i did in the past and explained my previous projects.
They asked me which language i m comfortable with. I said java.
Asked some very basic Java questions like wat is abstract class?
Over all it was an easy interview.
Currently waiting to hear from them about the second round of interviews.
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