Goldman Sachs Programmer Analyst Interview Questions & Reviews
Updated Mar 21, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Programmer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Mar 21, 2012
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 Salt Lake City, UT (took 2 days)
I did two interviews with two team. On the first day, it took 3.5 hours with six people from one team. Each person took 30 mins and all technical question except the last person. Last person spent about an hour, explained a little about the company, and showed their office on 7th floor. It was intensive interview but interview experience was good.
A week later, I went through the second interview from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. the first one hour was with the same team who interviewed me a week ago. 30 minutes break. Starting from noon to 4:30pm, continuous interview with another team and a VP from HR as the last interviewer.
I was very surprised that they didn't even provide me a lunch. Even no lunch time except the 30 minutes break. Last second interviewer was a manager. He didn't say exactly, but it seems he expects his employee to perform on-call duty too. He said the job is not typical 9 to 5 job. Everybody needs to carry a phone and need to respond. This second day interview experience was not pleasure.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Programmer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 8, 2012
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Dallas, TX (took a day)
There were 3 interviewers. All three of them were engineers in Goldman. The first one was behavioral. The next one was technical. I finally met the vice-president technology. He seemed to be impressed with my research work. He offered me to fly to New York. However, I was also called for interviews with a couple of different technology companies. Before I scheduled my Interviews at Goldman, I was offered a position in one of the big tech companies and I chose to join them. I declined further interviewing with Goldman.
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Reason for Declining
I got a better offer in a technology company. I wanted to stay close to technology companies
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Programmer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Mar 18, 2010
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2008 (took 2 months)
Lengthy online application process with all the standard questions. 1st round of interviews include two general interviews with two interviewers in each. These will be employees at the firm at a variety of levels - all within the division you are applying to. The other 1st round interview is a technical interview based upon a case study. The 2nd round is a further three interviews similar the the 1st round but perhaps more detailed in nature.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Programmer Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Feb 24, 2010
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
The interview process was very drawn-out. First I had a phone interview, next I was invited to come and interview on site – I met with 4 people that day, after that I was invited for another in person interview – once again I met with 4 people. Then there was a week during which I’ve received no communication from the HR, however the following week I received an invitation for one more, in-person interview. I declined, since I’ve already received and accepted an offer from a different company during the previous week.
Except for the sheer number of times I had to go back, I had mostly pleasant experience interviewing. All, except one person, were very professional, polite, and seemed like a good group of people to work with. They all asked at least one “analytical” question, but not the ones like “how do you move the building” or “how many elephants are in the country” – their questions were tricky, but you could reason through them; they’ve also asked me about the projects I’ve worked with and some technology related questions.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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