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Updated Jan 4, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Salt Lake City, UT (took a day)
Recieved a phone call from an experienced recruiter who asked questions regarding my past experience. After a back and forth he informed me I was best suited for a leadership or managment position that they currently do not have an opening.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jun 14, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
This was for their private wealth management division:
Did two phone interviews on two separate occasions with more recent hires (both at associate level) with similar formats, but clearly different styles based on the personality of the interviewer.
First interviewer - Around 50% background questions and 50% brainteaser types. Did reasonably well, but got hung up on the last brainteaser that I had to be guided through. Generally friendly and answered lots of my questions about the position/department. Good enough to get me to the second round...
Second interviewer - Starts by asking about some points about my educational background and asks for elaboration. I've been asked about it in many past interviews, so talked through it quite smoothly, but he clearly didn't understand the subject at all (Monte Carlo acceleration techniques). He promptly switches the topic and start throwing math brainteasers at me one after another until I start tripping up a bit and he says "come on, time's ticking", instead of offering any hints to move the process along. Afterwards, he just says the "we'll be in touch" and hangs up. One of the rudest interviewers I've ever spoken with.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Feb 1, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Very polite and smart interviewer. Basic probability questions. OK if you have studied the popular quant interview books. Interviewer helps if you get stuck. The interviewer started with an introduction to himself, the company and the particular division he worked in. After this, asked for any questions that I had followed by two technical questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 1, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2008 in New York, NY (took 2 weeks)
About 5-6 total interviews, one of them on the phone, and the rest of them in person, meeting a couple of people at a time. Standard probability (Bayesian trees) and stats (moments and distributions) questions first. Some programming (Matlab basics). Then lots of finance (duration, convexity, CAPM) and econ (inflation/deflation). Few brain teasers.
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Negotiation Details
Did not negotiate. Standard offer.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jul 27, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2010 in Chicago, IL (took 3 weeks)
Had my first phone interview with a VP a couple of weeks ago. The interview was relatively straightforward, a lot of whys and what's from the resume. Couple of days after the phone screen , i was asked for another set of interviews (four). Haven't heard back ever since. It's been 2 weeks now.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jun 14, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 (took 5 days)
Very personality and resume driven. They asked a number of questions regarding my previous experience in the industry, experience during business school and experience in my previous job. They were concerned why I left my previous job and followed up promptly with a call to my previous employer. The interviewers took the interview process very seriously and were extremely professional during the whole process. The process went extremely quickly and I had four interviews in a span of 3 working days due to the fact that I was an off cycle hire.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted May 20, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2010 (took 3 days)
You need to know why Goldman and how you see yourself fitting into the organization. Know "your story" inside and out and have quality answers for all of the career decisions you have made to date. Talk to current and former employees that have worked with or in the group.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted May 15, 2010 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
Three phone interviews, then 23 (yes, not a typo) in face interviews with 4 different divisions. Got three offers. Overall, if you can stay alert and be pleasant through the whole process, you'll get the job. Everyone was very nice, and I definitely met much more malignant people at other firms.
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Negotiation Details
Make sure you already have other offers. Goldman will match/beat any offer you have, so it's best to already have attractive offers going in.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Mar 2, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Jersey City, NJ (took 3 weeks)
Got the interview through a Recruiter to put things in perspective
- Applied in Dec 09
- 1st interview 3 rd week of Jan
- 2nd interview 4th week of Jan
- 3rd interview 1st week of Feb
Offer - 4th week of Feb
1st interivew was with the hiring manager in Jersey City -
Asked generic background question about resume and work experience. Stressed on demonstration of TeamWork and experience around working in a team, presentation to senior mgmt etc
- Why you want to work for GS?
- What do you know and like about GS?
- Why should I hire you?
- What are your core competencies?
Also somethings around relationship building, & change mgmt experience?
2nd interivew with the team and clients of the team
5 individual 1 after the other 2 via phone 1 in london & 1 local.
- Questions regarding Education and selection of What B-schools I applied to besides the one I choose?
- Why did I select a particular b-school?
- Conflict Mgmt/Behaviourial Questons?
- WHY GS? ( You better have a very good answer for WHY GS?)
3rd interview with the Big Dog... very informal and friendly more sort of strategy question regarding how you can contribute to the strategy?
- Were you want to be 5 yrs from now in the org?
- How quickly can you contribute to the team?
- Any questions?
Negotiation Details
GS does not negotiate the base was not non-negotiatble but very competative. However I was able to negotiate the full yr benefits/bonus
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate at Goldman Sachs
Posted Nov 28, 2009
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 (took 3 days)
Very focused on skills, intelligence, ability to think quickly. "Test to fail" type of interviews. They made sure to question everything on my resume. Few "fit" questions, but it pays to practice this type beforehand anyway, to ensure you aren't caught off guard. No weird behavioral type tricks the way I've heard some firms utilize.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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