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Updated May 19, 2022
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Featured Interview
Anonymous Employee in New York, NY
I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in Jan 2022
There were 2 coding problems in a language of my choice and 2 - 4 behavioral questions. One of the coding problems was finding the median in two sorted arrays.
- Tell me about your self
Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Hirevue con preguntas automatizadas y a las semanas invitación para el Superday basado en 3 entrevistas con 3 diferentes gerentes de Goldman Sachs. Fue una gran experiencia. A los 14 dias uno es notificado con el resultado de las entrevistas del Superday
- No estoy permitido hablar de esto
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Hirevu and then superday. The superday was 3 back to back interviews. Not highly technical but know the basics. Most interviewers are just getting a sense for you interest, adaptability, and general capability.
- How would you build a portfolio for a client given today's macroeconomic environment.
Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Hirevue and then superday. The superday was back to back interviews with VPs and questions were similar to the hirevue with time to ask your own questions at the end of each interview.
- Why are you interested in Goldman Sachs?
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Online OA + Video recording on behavioral questions , Online OA consists of Coding and Math, leetcode questions and probabilities/statistics for the math part, everything was fair no tricky questions
- Describe a time when you overcome a difficult situation and what is the outcome of it
Anonymous Employee
I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
The process went smoothly with about five different interviewers, with one person not able to make it to the interview on time. The interviews were held via video conferencing application.
- They asked about my past experience and how it relates to the role, also asked technical questions and assessed my communication.
Anonymous Employee
I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Interview process was very clean and efficient. Focused mainly on the problem solving technique and core concepts and high level designing questions. Interview panel will help us with the solution approaches and for difficult level problem they will give small hint for optimized solution only if we solved the problem in brute force.
- Problem solving questions like stack impl. Design level questions
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
It was a little lengthy, but mostly fair, prepare for more technical questions, I got some on accounting, and more current questions on the stock market and economy. Definitely at least read the wall street journal for that day beforehand
- Can you explain how the three accounting statements connect?
Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
The interview process was firstly you submit your resume and then you get an email for Hirevue. They tell you a date to complete it by and it takes about 20-30 minutes. Mostly behavioral questions and why GS.
- Tell me about yourself and your interests.
Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
Three stages, which started with a Hirevue, then a phone call, then multiple rounds in-person. The Superday was three rounds and qualitative in nature. There were 2 interviewers per round.
- I don't recall the exact questions, but they asked about my resume, background experience and we spoke about my interests. They also wanted to hear my thoughts about the market (both national and international).
Anonymous Employee
I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs
3 rounds of technical interviews with standard easy/ medium LC questions and stats/ probability questions before the technical rounds there is an OA and Hirevue followed by an interview with some questions about your resume and behavioral questions
- the conditional probability of dice roll
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Goldman Sachs as 61.0% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.10 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Summer Analyst and Analyst rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Software Engineer and Operations Analyst roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Goldman Sachs takes an average of 30 days when considering 6,624 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Technology Analyst had the quickest hiring process (on average 24 days), whereas Analyst roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 29 days).
Common stages of the interview process at Goldman Sachs according to 6,624 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on One Interview: 23.58%
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Group Panel Interview: 13.65%
Presentation: 9.09%
Skills Test: 7.11%
Drug Test: 7.03%
Background Check: 6.11%
IQ Intelligence Test: 5.97%
Personality Test: 3.54%
Other: 1.70%