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Updated May 20, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Vice President - Technology at Goldman Sachs
Posted May 20, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 4+ weeks)
13 - 15 interviews
local in-person and global phone call interviews
Didnt tell me much about the position or type of skills I would be using ...
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no negotiation .. they give you a salary.. if you negotiate up thy WILL take it out of your bonus at the end of the year like a friend of mine.
They tend to bring you in at a level below you deserve ... everyone tells me this all the time.
they tell you they only have associate analyst VP and then MDs .. what they don't tell you is the VP-02, VP-03, VP-M1, VP-M2 all inside the VP level... all you have to go through before MD.
So this idea there are only 4 levels is not accurate
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Junior Business Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted May 19, 2012
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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 Feb 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2+ weeks)
it was quite stressful so one has to be fully prepared
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stick to your point and be yourself
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Personality Test.
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Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted May 11, 2012
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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 Jun 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 3 weeks)
I was interviewed for Sybase position. They had 3 telephonic interviews followed by 6 1:1 interviews on site.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation and a Background Check.
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Apr 19, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Bangalore (India) (took 2+ weeks)
Interview process started positively. There were 5 telephonic discussion before they request me fly to Bangalore for further F2F rounds. All telephonic rounds were mostly technical in nature. Questions varied from design aspects to problem solving skills. F2F rounds went also good and it took 5 hrs time for in-campus rounds. After F2F there were also few more telephonic discussion with VP-Tech. I was told in 16th round that it is final deciding round and after that interview i was positive about the offer, but HR personnel again called and asked me for one more telephonic interview with another VP.
Overall, whole process was time consuming in big way. The main problem is, i was asked to bear all spending to travel to Bangalore which will be reimbursed later. But, HR personnel is completely unmoved, even after 4 weeks has passed to my travel to Bangalore and with repeated request for reimbursement via mail. I was told that things are positive but now there is no reply on follow-up mails since last two weeks. It was a huge loss of my money and time. For others good techies, i will advise you think twice interviewing goldman for the work in proprietary language, which outside world has no regard.
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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 and a Personality Test.
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Vice President at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 11, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 months)
They conducted more than 15+ rounds of interview over a long period of 2 months. After initial few weeks, I stopped asking when would the interview process end. Most of the questions in different interview rounds were repetitive. Every interviewer stated a few great things about the company & gave opportunity to ask questions. Used all means of interviewing including telephone calls, video conferencing, tele-presence, telephonic panel interview, in-person interviews.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 26, 2011
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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 Jan 2009 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 months)
The interview process was very well structured and organised. The focus is more on attitude, capability and interpersonal skills. They do not spend much time in asking technical questions unless the interviewee pushes the conversation in that direction.
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Impossible, what they offer is final
Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Strategist (Analyst) at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 2, 2011
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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 Dec 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
I had to clear a written test to qualify for the interview. Questions were mainly from probability,linear algebra , OOPS ,operating system fundamental and data structures. I had three 1:1 interviews . First interviwer asked some typical HR questions and a few questions on Probability - including one on random walk. One interviewer questioned me about OOPS, invariants, difference between functional and imperative languages. One asked me two mathematical problems, again on probability and linear algebra. Interviewers were very pleasant and helpful and gave me a lot of hints to arrive at the solutions to different problems.
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I had put Goldman Sachs on top of my preference list, so i had no hesitation in accepting the offer. I did not have the chance to negotiate a compensation package as the entry level package had been specified before interviews.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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IT Manager at Goldman Sachs
Posted Sep 4, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in Bangalore (India) (took 3 weeks)
Earlier 2 rounds were telephonic. Then was called for F2F. There were at least 6-7 people who did F2F. Some on project management. Some people management and 1 technical. Did well on all aspects etc the technical.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Aug 23, 2011 — 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 Aug 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took 2 days)
Round 3 :
Here is where the real thing starts. Technical interview.
First I was called and taken to room in the first floor. 2 people were sitting in 1 tech guy and other whom I presume to be HR dept lady. I was welcomed and I shook hands with both of them. This is the first impression – your hand shake. If you are not strong and confident it shows in your handshake. So practice a bit of hand-shaking to see if you get a firm grip cause a tight squeeze would hurt on the other hand.
Well, the first and standard question in every one of the companies is – Tell me about yourself. I personally started it from my higher secondary and proceeded to college with concentration on computers. Then I told my hobbies related to computers and then my general hobbies.
Next, the questions were completely from my resume. The tech guy kept asking me questions and the HR lady took notes about me. The first one was about database design – The main focus was in bridge pattern, which I did not get at first but finally landed. Next it was followed by maze solving robot project that I had to explain. Then I had to design the databases that I did for another web-crawler project and explain the working and optimization of the database with respect to scaling when huge amounts of data are being crawled. Then a few follow up questions were there with respect to how the php code worked. Then I had to explain about CRON jobs and their utility.
Next he asked me number of squares in a 8x8 chess board. It might have taken me some time to solve this, but since this question was asked to the candidate who went before me, I had asked what the answer was from him. So I quickly answered but also accepted that the question was familiar. Ans is ( 1^2 + 2^2 + ….. + n^2 )
Then it moved to architecture. The question was what would you expect when you start a project ?
Ans : My answers were based on requirements, vision of the project. I questioned about versioning, time to market and the impact of the project on the organization. I gave my views on how this would be carried out with respect to a normal project vs a research project. The HR lady was impressed.
Follow up : But she was expecting something else. She asked me to think a bit harder on that.
Ans : I immediately knew that she was expecting answers with respect to time-management. So I started to talk on this aspect. The breaking of problem statement into sub problems and finally into indivisible unit modules and their implementation and how I would make sure I calculated time precisely.
Follow up : Now she asked what you would suggest to clients w.r.t time when they are in a hurry ?
Ans : I talked about 5 minutes about the reputation of the organization and that I would never put in jeopardy at any stage with any stupid decisions and made sure they understood that promises are important in corporate society.
Since I moved to clients they started questioning about what the client expects from the project ?
Ans : I told them that I have worked with real clients before and that they do not care about the technical aspects of the functionality and only go by the look and feel of stuffs.
Follow Up : This was followed up with questions as to how you would react if they only want front-end and do not care about how the back end work ?
Ans : I replied that I would maintain my professional aspects in all forms of work. Despite client’s pressure that I would maintain the quality in all times. Then I told how to pull back work to check if we are proceeding in the right direction and that if clumsiness has crept in due to time pressure.
Any real time problems faced In projects ?
Ans: Saying that one of the members did not work and that you did all the work does not show off you are great at all. So avoid such answers.
My answer was with respect of synchronization. How integrations caused problems in the completed modules with one of a real time example and how I solved it using skype to synchronize work with my mates.
Follow Up : Questioned about integration problems ?
Ans : Spent a couple of minutes explaining about regression testing.
Since I spoke about synchronization the tech guy asked me about thread-safety ?
Ans : Straight forward answer to this. I explained the ins and outs of threads and the merits and de-merits of every method.
Since I told my interest was web-designing, he asked why divs in HTML ?
Ans : Straight-forward answer as to how divs are better than table layouts.
That was end of round 3 and I had to answer a few just-for-a-formality questions and came out. I thought I had made a good impression.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Analyst Developer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Aug 2, 2011
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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 Jul 2009 in Bangalore (India) (took 4+ weeks)
One can expect multiple rounds of interviews varying from 5 to 25 ( not joking) based on years of experience, so you need have lot of patience along with strong technical and analytic skills to get an offer.
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