Goldman Sachs | SDE -1 | Interview Experience | 2024 | Bangalore | Selected | Coderpad

Recently gave interviews at GS, I received an opportunity through Naukri when a recruiter reached out, expressing interest in my profile and inviting me to participate in an online assessment. I accepted the opportunity, with the test scheduled for the following day.

About the interview process:

Each interview consisted of two interviewers and all interviews took place on Coder Pad.
There were a total of six rounds, with the emphasis on DSA at 70%, puzzles at 20%, and Java and Spring Boot-related questions at 10%.
My first interview was on March 25th, and I received positive feedback afterwards. Subsequently, my next three rounds were scheduled for March 27th, each spaced two hours apart. Following these, I was scheduled for a Managerial Round on the same day.
On that day, HR informed me of positive feedback for all my interview rounds.
Finally, I received the offer letter by April 19th.
Round 1: Online Assessment, 2 medium-hard level question, duration 120 minutes.

Round 2: DSA round with interviewer on CoderPad, 1hr Duration

1. First Unique character in a string
2. Compute Snowpac: Same as Trapping Rainwater

Round 3: DSA round with interviewer on CoderPad, 1hr Duration

1. Maximum sum path in the matrix from bottom-right to top left
2. Find the Median from Sorted Arrays

Round 4: DSA round with interviewer on CoderPad, 90min Duration

1. Vector Implementation from scratch And was asked to write get(), add(), remove(), and size() and was asked time and complexity for each function.
2. Find the sum of squares and was asked to write code in Java.
3. Fibonacci series (from brute force to the optimized approach)
4. No. Of stairs

Round 5: 30 mins DSA round, they asked 1 hard question and 2 Puzzles.

1. Find the median of the running stream of Integers
2. Puzzle: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/puzzle-21-3-ants-and-triangle/
3. Puzzle: https://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/weighing-9-balls-solution.html

Round 6: Hiring Manager Round: Discussion over Spring Boot and API-related questions, And asked 1 medium level questions.

1. Reduce the string by removing K consecutive identical characters

Was able to solved all the DSA questions with there Time and Space Complexity.

Verdict: Got the Offer.