GS is a great place to work with first-rate salary and benefits. The health care is excellent, with on-site health facilities.
Lots of great co-workers. A really diverse group with people from all over the world.
Technology at Goldman focuses on short-term wins, which leads to a lot of thrash and misses potential opportunities that could result from longer-term investments in applied research. Middle management layers (MDs) are driven too much by the need to avoid missteps rather than providing dynamic technical leadership. This is causing young people to leave the firm.
Find a way to reward managers who listen to their technical leaders and take maximum advantage of advances in open source and technologies that may be considered "non-standard".
Encourage young engineers to push management toward innovation and not take no for an answer.
Online assessment: HackerRank. Virtual Superday: Two 45-minute interviews. The first is technical. Know your OOP and classes. The next interview is a scan of your resume, and they go in-depth, asking multiple follow-up questions.
I am flying out to New York to interview with them onsite. The prescreening was very easy. They never sent me a coding challenge but instead sent me a behavioral screening. The screening was pretty average - nothing special. I will update later o
A few rounds of basic architecture questions. Things like, "How would you design a service with a back-end that would expose data as an API?" Then, a logic question for checking your problem-solving skills.
Online assessment: HackerRank. Virtual Superday: Two 45-minute interviews. The first is technical. Know your OOP and classes. The next interview is a scan of your resume, and they go in-depth, asking multiple follow-up questions.
I am flying out to New York to interview with them onsite. The prescreening was very easy. They never sent me a coding challenge but instead sent me a behavioral screening. The screening was pretty average - nothing special. I will update later o
A few rounds of basic architecture questions. Things like, "How would you design a service with a back-end that would expose data as an API?" Then, a logic question for checking your problem-solving skills.