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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 22, 2012
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 2 months)
1 first round 1:1 interview in Paris, 3 1:1 interviews in London final round
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 22, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
I was invited for a superday after submitting my application online. They had me meet one-on-one with one of the associates in Investment Banking. He asked the standard questions such as tell me about yourself, give me an example of when you worked as a team, why banking. When I first walked in, started off with a joke - bad idea because people in this industry do not appreciate jokes or a sense of humor.
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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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Securities Sales and Trading at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 21, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)
I applied online, shortly before the deadline. I received a reply in late December, asking to come in for a first-round interview. The interviewer was incredibly friendly, he started with a short introduction of himself and then we continued the interview in a very relaxed, conversation like manner. Be ready to show: Leadership, Teamwork, Problem Solving.
Firm hand shake and a genuine smile on your face. Don't even think about trying to pretend you're someone else, they are too smart not to notice that. Just be yourself.
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Intern at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 19, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
lasted 30 minutes, he first introduced himself, then I began with a 3min self-introduction. Then some questions on the resume, ask about past experience, ask about some definitions, one calculus question(take limits), two stochastic calculus questions(stopping time/martingale/ito fomula/ito isometry). Quite noisy background, seem to call from the trading desk directly.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 17, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took a day)
-Give me feedback on your education background, walk me through your CV.
-What is the price of goldman sachs shares ?
--Tell me an example of a situation where you proved having commercial skills.
-What would you put in a facsheet to convince investors to buy shares of a company that is going to become public ?
-Explain me very briefly what it's hapenning in the financial markets in USA, Europe and Asia.
-Do you have any question for me ?
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales and Trading Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 16, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Referred to HR through a contact's contact; was contacted within 12 hours to set up an interview. First round over phone, about 20 minutes - all fit and no brainteasers (a few technical - pitch me a stock, where are the markets going)
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Strategist at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 16, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
Received the call from the interviewer after applying online. Interview consisted of the interviewer telling me a bit about the group. Asked me about my PhD program and my research (the interviewer had researched a similar topic when he was in graduate school). Asked one programming questions, one probability questions, and finished with one finance question.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
Goldman is a bunch of arrogant clowns. They had mistakenly emailed me 2 separate emails for superday interviews with "Dear____" with the wrong names. I emailed HR asking who they were meant to send the emails to and no response back. Finally, in December, I was invited to the final day superday interviews without any phone interview or anything. Slipped right under the radar. Arrived at 8am, made us wait in the lobby until 8:30. Then shipped us over the ferry to Jersey City's office. I had 4 interviews, first one starting at 11:30 and ending at 4pm. HR made me just sit in the lobby until 11:30 and left me there. The interviews were very degrading and involved overly qualified skills asking to code on the spot with in depth syntax. One of the managers walked out of the room saying he had a meeting, when I later saw him chomping on his food 3 minutes later. Rude they make faces at you when you don't know the answer. The work environment looks miserable. They are not looking for people who want to grow, they are looking for top coders who already know what to do. Overall the worst experience. Very unprofessional. It is not like I was underqualified either. The questions they ask are too difficult that no experienced programmer would understand the logic.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Operations Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Singapore (Singapore) (took a day)
They first called me up for a 2:1 competency based interview, mostly asking "fit" questions and integrity questions. The second round consists of 2 back to back 20 min 2:1 interviews, all on "fit" questions. the 2:1 usually consists of a "good guy" "bad guy" or "senior" "junior".
Interviewers were friendly, try to engage both of them. Prepare qutie a few questions beforehand because there will be quite some time that is allocated for your questions.
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FICC Quant Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 12, 2012
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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 May 2010 (took 2 days)
I was first to give a brief resume walkthrough. Then I was asked the following question: Let x and y be iid uniform RVs on [0,60]. What is E(|x-y|) and var(|x-y|)?
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