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Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Oct 23, 2009 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2009 in Salt Lake City, UT (took 1 week)
My phone interview was brutal -- asked me lots of technical questions about everything on my resume. I wasted time before the in person interviews studying up on intricacies on java: runtime complexity, obscure data structures, and all of the classical "trick" programming questions... which turned out to be a waste. The skills test convered Java, Perl, SQL and Unix, but was ridiculously simple. There were no trick questions, just the basics of each topic. The interviews were standard interview questions, followed by lots of proselytizing about the "culture" of GS.
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The pay didn't seem worth the amount of stress. Everyone kept telling me how "intense" it was to work there and repeatedly asking if I was willing to work lots of late nights and weekends. For such an "intense" environment, the pay sucked. They tried to offset that by promising ambiguous bonuses, but how can you trust something that's not quantified?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jul 16, 2009
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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 Jul 2009 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
It was an easy process. There were 2 phone interviews that each took close to an hour. After that there was a live interview that took all of the day. It was 8 hours in total. I thought the process was fair and reasonable. The live interview was a long day but was not too bad.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jun 28, 2009 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Feb 2008 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 weeks)
I had an initial phone interview which covered some very specific questions regarding design patterns, principles and testing methodologies. During the phone interview I was also asked a brainteaser which was very difficult and the interviewer did in fact say that nobody ever solves it. It was more to get an idea of how you would solve a problem.
I didn't think it went well, but got asked to attend a face to face interview. Actually, it turned out to be three face to face interviews. Firstly, a technical guy asking lots of questions about previous architecture and design experience and implementations. Also, some SQL questions relating to index (Clustered, non-clustered) that sort of thing.
Secondly, met with a potential member of the team that I would be working with. This was the most pleasant interview of the lot as it wasn't as in your face and trying to grill you.
Thirdly, the manager overseeing the EU/ Asia development teams. Again, someone who wanted to discredit everything you say with his superior knowledge and experience.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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