Goldman Sachs interview experience Real time questions & tips from candidates to crack your interview
Summer analyst
Goldman Sachs
5 rounds | 3 Coding
problems
Selected Interview preparation journey
Preparation
Duration: 6 Months
Topics: Data Structures and Algorithm, OOPS, Puzzles, Sql, Database, Trees, Dynamic Programming
Tip 1 : Be consistent
Tip 2 : See archives of the company before you go for the interview
Tip 3 : Always try to take the pressure in a positive way and try to build yourself. Maybe after getting one opportunity don't stop f practice in the same way after selection because who knows what might come after it .
Tip 4 : Whenever you feel low talk to your parents and your best buddies and cheer yourself because durign this time you might see a lot of failures but after the failures there is somewhere success waiting for you.
Application process
Where: Other
Eligibility: CGPA should be about 7.
Tip 1 : If you are adding any links like Leetcode or Codechef try to show your consistency there.
Tip 2 : Write only those things in which you are better because they will ask questions on the topics mentioned in your resume.
Interview rounds
01
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date16 Jan 2022
Coding problem0
It was totally aptitude based.
02
Round
Medium
Online Coding Interview
Duration90 Minutes
Interview date27 Feb 2022
Coding problem1
1. Zig-Zag of Matrix
Hard
40m average time
60% success
0/120
Asked in companies
You are given a matrix ‘mat’ of ‘N’ rows and ‘M’ columns. Your task is to return the Zig-Zag order of the matrix.
The Zig-Zag order of a 5 x 5 matrix is given below
For example:
You are a given the matrix -:
‘mat’ = [[1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6],
[7, 8, 9]]
Here the Zig-Zag order of the given matrix is [1, 2, 4, 7, 5, 3, 6, 8, 9]. Hence the answer is [1, 2, 4, 7, 5, 3, 6, 8, 9].
Problem approach
Use even diagonals differently and odd diagonals differently
03
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration30 Minutes
Interview date25 Mar 2022
Coding problem1
1. Remove Consecutive Duplicates
Easy
0/40
Asked in companies
For a given string(str), remove all the consecutive duplicate characters.
Example:
Input String: "aaaa"
Expected Output: "a"
Input String: "aabbbcc"
Expected Output: "abc"
Problem approach
Use a counter like if it is equal to next character increase the count by 2 else 1 and in lst check if the loop is equal to size of the string then concatenate the last character else don't.
04
Round
Easy
Video Call
Duration30 Minutes
Interview date25 Mar 2022
Coding problem1
They asked mostly on my resume projects and some internships that I have done.
1. DBMS Question
Sql advantages over NoSQL.
05
Round
Easy
HR Round
Duration20 Minutes
Interview date25 Apr 2022
Coding problem0
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