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Goldman Sachs Interview Experiences
3935 interview stories from candidates at 857 companies: how each round went, what was asked and how it ended. Every company page links to practice questions in the same style.
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- Two Phone Screens, Handwritten Onsite Code, Verbal OfferGoldman Sachs · Software Engineer · Onsite · Oct 2026Offer
A recruiter reached out to me and kept checking whether I minded being in the office 5 days a week (I told them several times that Amazon is 5 days too, so I'm hardly in a position to mind). First there was a 40 minute screening: write 2 SQL queries and fix a Java Spring API (I honestly could not figure out why the last two tests were failing). Camera on and screen recording the whole time. I loo…
- Two GSAM Quant Roles, Live Coding Plus TSP, Then No HeadcountGoldman Sachs · Quantitative Researcher · Onsite · Sep 2026
I interviewed for two GSAM quant roles at the same time. Role one was more like a fund of funds kind of group. First round was live coding: power of ten and Newton's method square root. Second round was already the final round on-site: one medium problem that was not the usual kind, one expected value problem, and one round that was purely chatting about my experience. Role two was the equity SMA…
- Two-Hour Online Assessment with Two ProblemsGoldman Sachs · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Dec 2025
2 hours to solve two problems: Transaction Segments Given an array transactionValues of length n, where transactionValues[i] is the transaction amount at time i. Count the number of contiguous subarrays that are strictly increasing and have length exactly k. Strictly increasing means: transactionValues[i]
