I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Dallas, TX) in Apr 2020
Interview
The process was about 4 weeks long. I had applied through Employee Referral at Goldman Sachs. It was basically two coderpads interview, followed by one final interview.
Because of the pandemic, final rounds were virtual online video interviews for about 2 hours.
Coderpad round 1: Basically, two questions with some follow up question
Coderpad round 2: One question and a few behavioral questions
Final round: Whiteboarding, 3- 4 coding questions. Please take your time to review and understand the question. Lastly, wrapped up the session by asking questions about the work culture and tools and technologies used.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Codepad question:
1. Implement a Deque with some follow up on optimization part (solved with Doubly Linked List)
2. Given name and grades of students, print the name along with the maximum avg score
Hint: Similar to leetcode high five problem, but you need to print the highest avg score.
Can be solved using hashmap and taking running sum along with the counts
3. (Don't exactly remember) Given a named tuple, with intervals and price, print the lowest price between the intervals, based on the start and end time
I used heapq for this implementation
Final rounds:
(Leetcode)
Coin Change with some modifications
Subarrays with KDifferent integers Variation)
Decode ways variation
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