Goldman Sachs

SDE-2 Interview Experience - United States

March 31, 2024

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Questions and answers for fixing a bug in a large set of code, which returns a lot of string manipulations for all corner test cases.

Frankly useless in assessing real tech skills, but more on fixing string-related bugs.

Questions

Fix all bugs in code to modify strings.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Goldman Sachs SDE-2 role in United States.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

Goldman Sachs's interview process for their SDE-2 roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Negative100%

Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Goldman Sachs's SDE-2 interview process in United States.

Goldman Sachs Work Experiences

Work is challenging, and you will never be short of work here

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India

September 9, 2025

Pros: Will compensate you if you are good.

Cons: No other perks. You need to ask for a raise to make sure you are not left out.

Work is challenging, and you will never be short of work here

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India

September 9, 2025

Pros: Will compensate you if you are good.

Cons: No other perks. You need to ask for a raise to make sure you are not left out.

A great company to work at

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Great company, very good work environment.

Cons: Have found nothing so far.

A great company to work at

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Great company, very good work environment.

Cons: Have found nothing so far.

Good work culture

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Good work and work-life balance

Cons: No work from home policy

Good work culture

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Good work and work-life balance

Cons: No work from home policy

Work is challenging, and you will never be short of work here

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India

September 9, 2025

Pros: Will compensate you if you are good.

Cons: No other perks. You need to ask for a raise to make sure you are not left out.

4.0
Work is challenging, and you will never be short of work here
SDE-2 • Current Employee
Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India
September 9, 2025
Pros: Will compensate you if you are good.
Cons: No other perks. You need to ask for a raise to make sure you are not left out.

A great company to work at

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Great company, very good work environment.

Cons: Have found nothing so far.

5.0
A great company to work at
SDE-2 • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
July 5, 2024
Pros: Great company, very good work environment.
Cons: Have found nothing so far.

Good work culture

SDE-2 • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Good work and work-life balance

Cons: No work from home policy

4.0
Good work culture
SDE-2 • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
March 19, 2024
Pros: Good work and work-life balance
Cons: No work from home policy

Goldman Sachs Interview Questions

Trapping Rain Water

Given an array representing the height of bars, calculate how much water can be trapped between them after rain. Think about finding the maximum height to the left and right of each bar.

ArraysTwo Pointers

Minimum Path Sum

Find the minimum sum of a path from the top-left to the bottom-right corner of a grid. You can only move down or right at each step.

ArraysDynamic Programming

High Five

Calculate the average of the top five scores for each student given a list of their scores. Return the result as a list of student IDs and their corresponding top-five average.

ArraysGreedy AlgorithmsStacks

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