Goldman Sachs Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jul 11, 2011
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Started with a round of phone interviews. Followed by a full day of one-on-one interviews. I had expected the one-on-one interviews to take place in person, but most of them were conducted over phone in a conference room. This surprised me.
I thought all the interviews were good. I especially enjoyed interviewing with the department VP, who asked some very probing questions.
I ultimately decided to not purse further interviews for personal reasons. Goldman is a high-intensity company, more or less requiring 60 hours each week. This is not something I'm interested in at this stage of my career. If not for this, I would have gladly continued with the process.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jul 30, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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 Salt Lake City, UT (took 2 weeks)
I had seven or eight phone interviews - all technical - with different Engineers and managers. Then I had interviews one day of 1:1 interviews in their offices in SLC.
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Negotiation Details
No, there is little/no room for negotiation, their offer will be strongly based on your last compensation.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted May 8, 2010
5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 1+ week)
I had a 'super-day' style interview, where I remained in one room, and a series of GS people came to interview me in turns. The themes to the interviews were: technical skills and experience, problem solving and analytical thinking, and GS fit.
Everyone I saw was very positiive about GS and what it had to offer.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Apr 8, 2010
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in Salt Lake City, UT (took a day)
The resume is on core java and java threads. Then he switched to my resume and started asking about my contribution in each of the projects I listed in detail.
It lasted for 40 mins. Then he said If I am shortlisted I will be called for a f2f interview.
its been 2 weeks but haven't received any confirmation yet.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Dec 3, 2009
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)
The interview consists of two main parts. The first is a skills assessment test. It was pretty straight forward, but not a lot of time to complete everything. The second part consists of interviews with three different people.
The questions asked at the interview primarily revolve around your experience and they finish with one or two problem type questions. Every single problem question revolved around algorithms with arrays, and not STL arrays. Just generic language independent algorithms to solve a problem.
I was disappointed with the interview process. The people there seem stressed out and are very focused. They also didn't know what position I was interviewing for or anything about it, so they couldn't answer any of my questions about it. Since they use a proprietary language, I was also told C++ wouldn't be useful either. When leaving the interview, expect to feel like you've been kicked out the door, very informal.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Sep 8, 2009 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Bangalore (India) (took 4 weeks)
I had 7 rounds of interview conducted through telephone . Each round was from a member of the team for which was based out of bangalore , london and new york . In all the rounds i faced similar questions .
1. one brain-teaser problem
2. Few questions based on either C or C++ language
3. One algorithm problem .
In all each interview went on for a duration of 40-45 mins . I had a HR round in the end , where i was asked general questions like why you want to join Goldman and why want to leave my old job . I told them I need more stability as my previous employer was having too many layoffs .
Though the interview process was one of the longest but the interviewers were very nice and took the process very maturely . They always used to personally take interest in my other social and sports activities , my college life , etc .
Interview Questions
* You are given 2 eggs.
* You have access to a 100-storey building.
* Eggs can be very hard or very fragile means it may break if dropped from the first floor or may not even break if dropped from 100 th floor.Both eggs are identical.
* You need to figure out the highest floor of a 100-storey building an egg can be dropped without breaking.
* Now the question is how many drops you need to make. You are allowed to break 2 eggs in the process
Negotiation Details
I didn't tried to negotiate , as i got an offer which was i was expecting . I will advice if you feel the offer is below expectations then you can negotiate on this related to joining bonus or relocation bonus . That will definately increase your salary .
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Aug 9, 2009
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2009 (took 2 days)
I was interviewed first via the phone and was asked pretty basic questions about Java Garbage collections and junit testing. After that had 4 1:1 30 minutes interviews and was asked questions which were more scenario based and also on optimization, performance management and general system architecture.
But did not get an offer after 2 weeks wait time.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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