Goldman Sachs Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – 2 phone interviews. Questions are about OOP design, java basic knowledge and database

Interview Details – Multiple round interviews with dozens of contacts.

Interview Details – Was at a career fair and went to one of their hospitality suites
Gave the man my resume and ask me for an interview time that next day at the booths
At interview there were two older men, one who had been there for 29 years and another 26 years. There tables was blank, which I thought was odd. So i handed them my resume and neither of them were taking notes on questions they were asking me.

They just skimmed my resume and asked questions about EVERYTHING that was on there.

They said they would email me if they would consider me but i had a bad vibe with them anyways and another guy i met that had an interview said he got asked for a 2nd interview right his first interview at the career fair

Interview Details – Started at 8 a.m., interviewed with 3 business units, each 3 interviews for a total of 9 interviews, each a half hour long! Some behavioral and some technical interviews, and one "sell". Very friendly and professional. Some difficult questions but nothing exceptionally tricky. They sent me on the ferry in middle to their building in Jersey City.

Interview Details – Sent in my resume for the analyst position, was contacted by hr via email fairly quickly to set up a phone interview. I sent back my availability and they responded with the interview date and time within a day. Had the phone interview that same week with a would-be junior team member. He asked typical questions like walk me through your resume and strengths/weaknesses. Two days after I was emailed again by hr to set up an in person interview. Was set up with an interview that same week lasting an hour and a half. Half an hour for each interview. First met with two people, the manager and a team member. Then two more team members right after that, and one more team member after that. Mostly easy going interviews after the first one. Manager was really hard to read and didn't seem very personable.

Interview Details – Got a phone interview.. Ask some probability and programming questions

Interview Details – 2 rounds--one at my school and one super day which was actually only 2 30-minute sessions

Negotiation Details – No

Interview Details – started with an on-campus recruiting event which was basically a screening process. The interviewees who passed the screening process were interviewed on-campus. The Superday took place in NYC.

Interview Details – I was initially contacted through LinkedIn by one of their internal "talent scouts". They sent me an copy of the job description and asked if I would be interested in learning more. I said yes, and we had a brief phone conversation where they asked my current salary range, years of experience, and a few other minor details I can't quite recall. After that first contact, I was transitioned over to an internal HR person who coordinated the rest of my interviews.

Round 1:

For the first round of interviews I travelled to their SLC office located by the UoU. I met with 5 different individuals over the course of 3 hours.

Interview 1: Fairly general interview, with questions like "Why are you interested in this position?" and "What are your strengths/weaknesses?" 1st interviewer also asked basic technical questions which seemed more to be a gauge of troubleshooting approaches and use of logic.

Interview 2: Phone interview, technical. Asked specific questions about technology's I had listed on my resume. If you list it, be prepared for trivia style questions. For example, if you list BGP -- be prepared to know the order of PA's that BGP will use to evaluate routes. Or how you would configure a prefix list for a range of subnets. Also things like timers, show commands.

Interview 3: Technical interview. This particular person was very rushed, and was impatient with me when I didn't immediately come to the same conclusions he would've on some subjective questions.

Interview 4: HR interview. Mostly asked about what kind of role I saw myself in, what my general interests were in regards to day to day work, and some talk about how different teams interacted.

Interview 5: Manager interview. Similar to the HR interview in that it was very high level -- asked about previous experience, what I saw in GS that interested in me, where I saw myself in 3-5 years, etc.

Round 2:

I was invited to participate in a second round of interviews, all via phone. These were strictly technical interviews, and followed similar patterns to my Interview #2 during round 1. They asked a lot of questions about what I've worked with in the past, and to "explain technology xyz..." For example, I have experience with load-balancing, so they asked "Explain to me how load-balancing works." Stuff like that. These interviews were much than round 1 and the people seemed genuinely friendly and easy to get along with.

Round 3:

I'm not sure if this was a round 3 interview or a late round 2, but I had a single phone interview with someone from NY. They were a senior technologist, but I"m not exactly sure where they were at in the hierarchy. This interview was also very similar to Round 2, in that it was technical, had some trivia, and also asked a lot of "Tell me how you would do xyz..."

As I mentioned before, if it's on your resume they will ask you about it. It also seemed like most of the individuals where just skimming down through my resume and asking me whatever popped into their minds about the specific resume item. Some of the questions were:
-- Why would you use multi-area OSPF over single area?
-- How would you troubleshoot a routing problem between two routers in different regions?
-- Tell me how you would configure HSRP to failover based on the status of an upstream router.
-- Tell me about load-balancing.
-- Tell me how stateful firewalls work

Reason for Declining – I read a lot of reviews about how the environment at GS was very demanding, and as a result, work/life balance suffered. I asked interviewers at various times if that was true, and they all downplayed it, but I heard from multiple 1st or 2nd hand sources (current employees, or friends of current employees) who said that long hours were expected.

On top of that, it would've been a 2+ hr/day commute for me, and that was just too much time away from the family.

Technically, it would've been a fantastic opportunity.