Goldman Sachs | Associate | Feb 2022 | Selected
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Recruiter reached out through linkedin in Jan 2022.

Online Assesment
Had a hackerRank OA which consisted of 2 medium level DSA questions.

Coder Pad Phone Interview
After that had a coder pad round for 1hr:
1 medium hard and 1 medium questions were to be solved. No restriction on language to use. Had to give a complete workable code which was tested by interviewer for multiple test cases.

Technical round| Zoom interview 1 hr
Then 1 technical zoom round was scheduled.
First question was of hard level DSA and struggled in the beginging to solve. Eventually was able to give pseudo code.
Then was asked about current project and design pattens used in project.
And one more medium level DSA question was given, which I was able to solve very easily (again just pseudo code).

SuperDay

3 zoom interviews were scheduled for 1 hr each. 2 panelists were testing in each round. All 3 rounds started with introductions on both sides. In the last round I was expected to give a more detailed explanation of the projects I have worked on and they even counter questioned me about some decisions. In other 2 rounds, a brief 2 min introduction sufficed.

First round

Multiple DSA question were asked ranging from trees, LCA, Backtracking, Combinations. Was able to give solutions for all. Just the logic and pseudocode in some cases. No need to write complete code.

Round 2
FIrst question was medium hard DSA question, was expected to give complete code which took input from interviewer and gave correct output. Was able to give a correct solution.

Second panelist then interviewed me on LLD question - Design a parking lot. Many Java OOPS conepts were tested here, alongwith system design patterns.

Round 3
Round was more of project discussion and system design questions discussion. Some DSA questions were also asked in between.

Had the superday in february 2022. Recruiter reached out for some documents within 2 days and said will get back in 2-3 weeks with final verdict and offer details. Haven't heard back till now.

Edit: Recruiter reached out with final figures for offer extension after about a month of superday. Compensation details : https://leetcode.com/discuss/compensation/1861735/Goldman-Sachs-or-Associate-or-Hyderabad

Tip for preparation:
Dont focus entirely on preparing for just DSA questions. Be sure to prepare and have atleast the basic knowledge of system design ( high and low level), OOPS concepts, java 8 features(since I was interviewed for a Java tech stack role, I was tested on these as well ), DB concepts and SQL queries, design patterns.
Also for DSA question, LC easy and medium problems should be sufficient. Hard questions get asked very rarely and also if are able to easily solve medium level questions you should be able to figure out the hard ones without much difficulty.

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