Goldman Sachs interview experience- Software developer, 2 YOE, Bangalore, India
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I have been contacted through Naukri portal. There were 4 rounds in total

  1. OA HackerRank test- 120 minutes, 2 problems. One problem was https://leetcode.com/problems/count-number-of-teams/ I have solved bothe the problems( I don't remember the second one)
  2. Coderpad round: 2 problems were given, 1. Trapping rain water 2. Maximum path sum from bottom-left to top right of an array(Problem statement was different). In this round you will also be asked to provide the test cases to check your function(template of test function was given). I solved both the problems
  3. Zoom interview 1: Two interviewers were present. First half an hour was focused on DSA. 1st problem was https://leetcode.com/problems/pancake-sorting/ I panicked and didn't get any ideas, couldn't solve this. 2nd was https://www.codingninjas.com/codestudio/problems/subarrays-with-at-most-k-distinct-values_1473804 I explained the approach and pseudo code was asked. Next half an hour was related to C++ questions mostly. It was like rapid fire, most of them were one liners like what is abstract class, virtual functions, inheritence types, smart pointers and types etc. There were some behavioural like why GS, why do you want to change etc. At the end(this was the last 10 minutes or so) there was LLD kind of discussion where interviewer asked me to comeup with classes and functions for a system that handles stock market analytics.
  4. Zoom interview 2: Two interviewers were present. First question was to implement multiplication and division without , /, - . There was some discussion about the test cases. Next I was asked to provide test cases for a function that counts the number of set bits in a number. In the end there was a problem to convert infix to prefix expression. It was the last 5 minutes of the interview. I have mentioned that we need to use a stack but I don't remember the algorithm exactly and can't solve it in 5 minutes. (Yes I should have been prepared, this was a basic question)

RESULT: Rejected

Tips:

  1. Most of the questions( atleast in OA and coderpad round) are repeated so make sure you solve the previously asked questions
  2. The interview process takes quite long and be prepared to be ghosted by the HR. I got a reply more than 2 weeks after the coderpad round inspite of repeatedly following up. The whole process took around 5 weeks.

All the best

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