The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Salt Lake City, UT) in Oct 2009
Interview
My phone interview was brutal -- asked me lots of technical questions about everything on my resume. I wasted time before the in person interviews studying up on intricacies on java: runtime complexity, obscure data structures, and all of the classical "trick" programming questions... which turned out to be a waste. The skills test convered Java, Perl, SQL and Unix, but was ridiculously simple. There were no trick questions, just the basics of each topic. The interviews were standard interview questions, followed by lots of proselytizing about the "culture" of GS.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a method to calculate the cubic root of a number to 3 decimal places.
Had Coderpad interview (45 mins), Superday Interview (45mins ,45 mins) virtually. they were DSA , DSA+ System Design. currently waiting for the update. 2 interviewers, were there in each rounds. DSA problems were Optimal approach and find average score
First round was hackerrank assessment having 2 coding questions. Then after clearing that, the first round of interview had Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score. I was not able to do it. Interviewer was very nice though
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score
One OA and coding round
I failed at first round since I cannot solve that lc problem, interviewer is from the office out of Japan,
OA is easy, got help with AI you can easily passed it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
one hard lc question.
4. Median of Two Sorted Arrays