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Updated Feb 8, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Feb 8, 2012
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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 Jan 2012 (took a day)
First applied online. Waited about one month to get the interview. No telephone interview was conducted. 4 rounds of 1:1 interview. 2 interviews were related to techincal questions and the other 2 were related to behavior-based questions. Technical questions e.g. programming-related: what is public, static modifier?
Behavior-based questions e.g. teamwork, leadership, conflict resolution
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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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 Dec 2011 in New York, NY (took 1 week)
Goldman is a bunch of arrogant clowns. They had mistakenly emailed me 2 separate emails for superday interviews with "Dear____" with the wrong names. I emailed HR asking who they were meant to send the emails to and no response back. Finally, in December, I was invited to the final day superday interviews without any phone interview or anything. Slipped right under the radar. Arrived at 8am, made us wait in the lobby until 8:30. Then shipped us over the ferry to Jersey City's office. I had 4 interviews, first one starting at 11:30 and ending at 4pm. HR made me just sit in the lobby until 11:30 and left me there. The interviews were very degrading and involved overly qualified skills asking to code on the spot with in depth syntax. One of the managers walked out of the room saying he had a meeting, when I later saw him chomping on his food 3 minutes later. Rude they make faces at you when you don't know the answer. The work environment looks miserable. They are not looking for people who want to grow, they are looking for top coders who already know what to do. Overall the worst experience. Very unprofessional. It is not like I was underqualified either. The questions they ask are too difficult that no experienced programmer would understand the logic.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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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 Oct 2010 (took 2+ weeks)
on campus interview. then flew in for 9 half hour one on one interviews. some technical, some not.
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Negotiation Details
they don't negotiate with new college graduates
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Drug Test.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Nov 26, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
Phone interview was mostly behavioral. Then came the super day which was also just resume based and behavioral.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Nov 15, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in City of London, England (United Kingdom) (took 3 days)
The interview of Goldman Sachs on their technology interns is surprisingly non-technical. They do have case-study type of technical interview. But they definitely do not expect any "correct" answer from the applicants but want to observe how applicants analyze the problem at hand and present their solutions.
Other than the technical interview, they have a series of one-to-one or one-to-many interviews; most of them are about getting a better understanding of your work experience and how you work with others.
I quite like people who interviewed me at that time; they are a bunch of direct people, so you can really save bullshits.
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Reason for Declining
As an international student, I am not allowed to just take a student leave for an internship in the industry for 3 months. My supervisor and our department PHD tutor resent the idea of students working for banks, so basically they didn't authorise my leave. What a pity!
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Skills Test.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Oct 19, 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 Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
I went throught the first round of interviews at my university's recruiment center. Was interviewed by one Analyst and one VP in the Technology division. They were extremely friendly and professional. Asked me a few general questions related to my expeience mentioned in my resume. They were very helpful, when they knew I was genuinely trying to answer questions, and also gave me hints in order to get to the answer. I got a reply from them in a week's time that I was put on Hold, and they would get back to me in a week about the final status. I am scheduled for a super day at their Jersey City office this week. Hoping for the best!
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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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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Oct 3, 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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
It consisted of HR questions for most of the time. They focused a lot on team work and decision making. Then the asked me some questions like why are you interested in telecommunications. The couple of technical cum hr questions like which is your favorite programming language and why? What is the difference between TCP/IP and UDP. Give real time examples of both. Which are you two favorite sorting algorithms. Demonstrate any one.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Sep 9, 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 Aug 2011 in Salt Lake City, UT (took 4+ weeks)
I had first telephonic round with technical guy...Interviewer had asked me lot of stuff on Mainframe related skills. But it was a nice interview...After one week, They told me that i have to attend to more rounds of interview...my second interview was with Manager of that department. He was very much impressed about my technical & behavioural skills. He is very positive and gave the hint i may get offer in 3 to4 weeks. After I attended third round interview with AVP(Associate Vice president). She had asked me lot of technical(scenario based) questions. I answered them very well. Infact she told that their process is bit slow in order hire right people on board. She was very much impressed...I waited couple of days to get the feedback...spoke to staffing agency, they told me that Goldman did not pass me further round of interview...
I was so much surprised...
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Sep 7, 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 Oct 2009 in Jersey City, NJ (took a day)
One whole day of interview with 12 rounds. Every single interviewer was smart.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs
Posted Apr 18, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in New York, NY (took 2 days)
The first day was a information session and the second day is interview.I interviewed 10 people(8 rounds and belonged to three groups) one by one from morning to the afternoon. Since I have never interviewed with such a lot of people, I did not fully prepared. Most of the questions are basic techniqual questions, not difficult, some brain test. Many questions were repeated. 2 Months later, our shool had a trip to goldman building, I felt .... , any way it was a good experience
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