Goldman Sachs

Software Engineer - IMD TECH Interview Experience - New York, New York

December 1, 2018

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One round of Recruiter interview. Basically, I was asked questions regarding my current job, education background, and why I was interested in this position.

One round of CoderPad coding interview: They asked me two questions, and I had to code them.

Then I was called for an Onsite interview, where I interviewed with about 5-6 people from 9 AM to 3 PM. There were programming, brain teasers, design, and algorithm-based questions.

Questions

Print Kth largest element in BST

Print a tree in zig zag order

Stock Buy Sell to Maximize Profit variation (Geeksforgeeks has examples of these questions)

Database general questions regarding joins, count

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Goldman Sachs Work Experiences

Great place for a workaholic

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Stellar people. Smart, passionate, and at times fun. Absolutely everyone is driven to succeed, and this creates a challenging but also rewarding atmosphere.

Cons: If you can't endure very, very long hours and extremely aggressive schedules, consider looking elsewhere. Difficult to establish genuine friendships.

Great place for a workaholic

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Stellar people. Smart, passionate, and at times fun. Absolutely everyone is driven to succeed, and this creates a challenging but also rewarding atmosphere.

Cons: If you can't endure very, very long hours and extremely aggressive schedules, consider looking elsewhere. Difficult to establish genuine friendships.

Declining engineering culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 24, 2025

Pros: Low pressure, low challenge. Rest and vest, without the vest.

Cons: Tedious career growth, bad bonuses regardless of output. Morale has been in freefall for two years. They are trying to be as cheap as possible with engineering.

Declining engineering culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 24, 2025

Pros: Low pressure, low challenge. Rest and vest, without the vest.

Cons: Tedious career growth, bad bonuses regardless of output. Morale has been in freefall for two years. They are trying to be as cheap as possible with engineering.

Great Culture, Overworked Engineer

Software Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

October 15, 2019

Pros: Amazing culture, great networking events.

Cons: Overworked, not as interesting as I thought.

Great Culture, Overworked Engineer

Software Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

October 15, 2019

Pros: Amazing culture, great networking events.

Cons: Overworked, not as interesting as I thought.

Great place for a workaholic

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: Stellar people. Smart, passionate, and at times fun. Absolutely everyone is driven to succeed, and this creates a challenging but also rewarding atmosphere.

Cons: If you can't endure very, very long hours and extremely aggressive schedules, consider looking elsewhere. Difficult to establish genuine friendships.

4.0
Great place for a workaholic
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
July 30, 2010
Pros: Stellar people. Smart, passionate, and at times fun. Absolutely everyone is driven to succeed, and this creates a challenging but also rewarding atmosphere.
Cons: If you can't endure very, very long hours and extremely aggressive schedules, consider looking elsewhere. Difficult to establish genuine friendships.

Declining engineering culture

Software Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

January 24, 2025

Pros: Low pressure, low challenge. Rest and vest, without the vest.

Cons: Tedious career growth, bad bonuses regardless of output. Morale has been in freefall for two years. They are trying to be as cheap as possible with engineering.

1.0
Declining engineering culture
Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
January 24, 2025
Pros: Low pressure, low challenge. Rest and vest, without the vest.
Cons: Tedious career growth, bad bonuses regardless of output. Morale has been in freefall for two years. They are trying to be as cheap as possible with engineering.

Great Culture, Overworked Engineer

Software Engineer • Current Employee

New York, New York, United States

October 15, 2019

Pros: Amazing culture, great networking events.

Cons: Overworked, not as interesting as I thought.

5.0
Great Culture, Overworked Engineer
Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
October 15, 2019
Pros: Amazing culture, great networking events.
Cons: Overworked, not as interesting as I thought.

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 PointersDynamic ProgrammingStacks

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

First Unique Character in a String

Find the first character in a string that appears only once. If no such character exists, return a specified value.

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