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Updated Feb 14, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Investment Management at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 1, 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 Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 weeks)
Phone Interview: Completely fit based. Why you? Why have you done the things you have done? Why Goldman? Why the buy-side?
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation possible. Accept/Decline
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Personality Test.
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Senior Programmer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 31, 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 Jul 2010 in New York, NY (took 3 days)
many levels of interviews, they kept bringing me back and forth throughout several months with 3 months break in between
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
No negotiation possible
Other Details
I Applied Online and 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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Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 29, 2011
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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 (took a day)
This is for GSAM summer analyst post. only 1st round interviews by far, 1:1 phone interviews, each last about 30 min, with 2 analysts both of whom joined less than a year. Mainly competency questions and walking through resume but 1 asked me about my investment style and opinion on 2012 market. The interviews were very pleasant, they said HR will contact in next few days.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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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.
Negotiation Details
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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Vice President - Ops and Vice President- Tech at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 23, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 days)
Goldman Sachs Bangalore teams from operations and technology visited a leading Tier-1 management institute in India to recruit lateral hires for VP positions. Surprisingly they rejected people with solid IB-Tech/Ops works experience and selected few folks who have almost 0 background in I-Banking.
Seems the recruitment team suffers from inferiority complex, and does not want candidates who are superior to them in domain knowledge. This is not to suggest that those candidates who were selected are not talented. But the point is that in any lateral hiring, relevant past work exp. gives strong edge to a candidate. Anyone who demonstrated solid proficiency in I-Banking domain knowledge (by virtue of his/her past experience of working at international locations with I-Banks/Financial Services) was rejected either in first round itself or in subsequent rounds. Those who were selected were not quizzed in depth on I-Banking related stuff because anyway they had no/very little such experience.
It is hard to believe that all candidates with strong I-Banking Tech/Ops experience would have goofed up in interview on soft-skills or any other aspect. Hope Senior Mgmt. at Goldman Sachs will take note of this unethical hiring practice. If such hiring practices are followed then the culture of lack of meritocracy (as pointed out in other comments) will definitely be strengthened in coming years which will be costly to the firm.
Summing up, it was very clearly evident during the interview process that both Ops and Tech hiring panels were biased against candidates who had substantial international work experience working with leading I-Banks and Financial Software Solution provider firms.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Strategist GSAM at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 22, 2011
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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 (took 1 week)
- 1st an HR interview: 30 min; background, professionals interests, skills. Then a brainteaser.
- 2st interview with a VP: 45 min. Background for 20 min, then technical question: brainteasers (coins and so on) and data analysis (regressions ...)
They never came back to me after the 2nd interview, and did not even answer to my email.
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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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Sales Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 21, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 days)
For the first round, I was mainly tested on my aptitude for the financial sector (given I am from an Engineering background), asked to describe a difficult situation when working within a team and asked about my previous internship experiences in other banks. Since I applied for Sales positions I was also asked to pitch the inteviewer a stock. Lastly, I was asked where else I had applied to (Citibank and GS) and why I had chosen these 2, why I wanted to work there.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Operations Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Salt Lake City, UT (took a day)
All the reviews I have read were somewhat helpful so my goal here is to be as fully encompassing as possibly in this review.
After they expressed interest in my, they set up an hour long phone interview. The interview was actually two 30 minute interviews with two different people. One was a relatively new hire (less than 5 years) and in a similar position and one was much higher up and much older. All the questions were lifestyle questions and were closer to conversations than interviews. However, they care most about team work experience, big or small, so have some examples planned ahead of time.
A few weeks later I was asked to come to SLC for an interview. It was again only an hour long but consisted of two 2:1 interviews. All the interviewers were very nice and it felt pretty informal the whole time. There were more resume based questions but it still centered around team based experiences. Again, no technical questions. My guess is that if you present yourself well the interview will be easy, but if your shaky in the start the technical questions might come to see if you will crack.
It took 2 1/2 weeks to get back to me with an offer.
Interview Questions
Negotiation Details
No negotiations allowed.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Financial Analyst - Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took a day)
Applied through an campus coordinated program and received a phone call from the recruiter. Initially got a phone call to come into the office for an interview. Interview was one-on-one and mostly behavioral questions rather than technical questions that focused on a potential fit.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in New York, NY (took a day)
The interview was a two step process. First the interview at the college campus, then they would invite you to fly to New York for a full day of interview with different employees of the company. Be prepared to answer questions about yourself. The questions were not that difficult but as I good interviewee you need to have those right on top of your mind.
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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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