Goldman Sachs | Associate
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Recruiter Reached out via LinkedIn and asked to apply on carrers portal.

Online Assessment : Hacker Rank test with 3 DSA problems in 135 mins

  1. https://leetcode.com/problems/find-the-winner-of-an-array-game/
  2. https://leetcode.com/problems/reaching-points/
  3. https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-number-of-taps-to-open-to-water-a-garden/

Got Coderpad round scheduled after 3 weeks

Coder Pad : One Associate level interviewer joined and immediately jumper to DSA questions after brief Introduction

  1. https://leetcode.com/problems/median-of-two-sorted-arrays/
  2. https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-subarray-with-sum-at-least-k/

Got Superday scheduled after 2 weeks

Superday Round 1 : Two Associate level interviewers joined and it was again a DSA round

  1. 25 Horses puzzle
  2. https://leetcode.com/problems/lru-cache/
  3. https://leetcode.com/problems/fraction-to-recurring-decimal/

Superday Round 2 : One Associate and One VP level interviewers joined and it was a System Design round (HLD + LLD)

  1. Design HLD for a Stock broker like Zerodha
  2. Scale it to handle 20 Million orders per day effectively
  3. LLD for whole order processing flow and strategies incorporated

Superday Round 3 : Two VP level interviewers joined and it was a DSA + System Design round (HLD + LLD)

  1. Started with a DSA problem - https://leetcode.com/problems/h-index-ii/
  2. Puzzles - 8 balls and First to 100
  3. Design HLD and DB design for a Portfolio Management System

Superday Round 4 : Hiring Manager Round, Same two people from round 3 joined

  1. Resume Grilling, Asked to explain end to end projects and counter questions on design choices
  2. Some Behavioural Questions

Verdict : Selected

Compensation : 40L Base + $2000 Joining/Relocation + 12L Bonus

Personal Details :

Years of Experience : 3
College : Tier 1 (IIT)
Current CTC : 26L (24L Base + 2L Bonus)
Current Organization : PBC

Suggestions :

  1. Prepare DSA well, continously participate in contests and practice majorly using leetcode since the questions are exactly same, even I checked the test cases were matching.
  2. Learn to write clean code with best practices, Interviewers take that seriously.
  3. Be vocal, keeping quite puts ad impression.
  4. Read, Understand and Learn Alex Vu system design book concepts
  5. Practice majorly used design patterns for LLD rounds.
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