I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in Dec 2011
Interview
Goldman is a bunch of arrogant clowns. They had mistakenly emailed me 2 separate emails for superday interviews with "Dear____" with the wrong names. I emailed HR asking who they were meant to send the emails to and no response back. Finally, in December, I was invited to the final day superday interviews without any phone interview or anything. Slipped right under the radar. Arrived at 8am, made us wait in the lobby until 8:30. Then shipped us over the ferry to Jersey City's office. I had 4 interviews, first one starting at 11:30 and ending at 4pm. HR made me just sit in the lobby until 11:30 and left me there. The interviews were very degrading and involved overly qualified skills asking to code on the spot with in depth syntax. One of the managers walked out of the room saying he had a meeting, when I later saw him chomping on his food 3 minutes later. Rude they make faces at you when you don't know the answer. The work environment looks miserable. They are not looking for people who want to grow, they are looking for top coders who already know what to do. Overall the worst experience. Very unprofessional. It is not like I was underqualified either. The questions they ask are too difficult that no experienced programmer would understand the logic.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You have a grid of 10 rows and 10 columns. Write a program to count how many squares there are. (it is not 100, there is the giant 1 square, a 1x1 square, 2x2, 3x3...etc from the left corner, but your points can start from the middle, or any other positions in the 10x10 square)
Detect loop in a linked list, know java collections and difference between c++ and java, some SQL database examples, some logical questions that in fact were not logical at all but just didn't make sense in general...
First stage was applying with CV/cover letter, then pass the screening. Once passed screening you get the coding test, which I passed all test cases and then got the hirevue. The hirevue wasn’t bad, just haven’t got a response ever since.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2023
Interview
did the online assessment and passed all the cases. get the rejection after two weeks and no reasons are specified. The OA is pretty easy and takes me about 30 minutes
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (London, England) in Feb 2023
Interview
3 rounds of interviews. Round 1: hackerrank with 2 programming questions Round 2: Hirevue interview with typical behavioural questions Round 3: Superday with two 45-minute rounds. 2 programming questions and 2 competency questions for each round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of complaints from a customer from the last 6 months, what steps would you take to report to your manager on how to best satisfy the customer?