Goldman Sachs Java Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Test
Experience: Quantitative, verbal, reasoning and basic technical questions.
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 50

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: Questions based on data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming concepts.
Tested basic knowledge in Finance sector especially related to the company.

College Name: Delhi Technological University, Delhi

Round: Test
Experience: It was an easy test overall, basic programming things were asked in technical part of test whereas aptitude questions were also relatively easy.
Tips: You just need to know things which were there in CS101 for technical part of test .Nothing else is required.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 1

Skills: Problem
College Name: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Round: Pre-placement offer
Experience: Each intern was assigned a individual project and mentor.
In the last week of internship there was project presentation and interview.
interview was easy .For me 50% of the questions were about project and some questions about algorithms and DBMS.
More emphasis was given to the quality of work on project.

General Tips: Working in company is complete different from working on course project. learning many new frameworks required for the project was really challenging.
Programming : Tree, Btree, Tries ..
Operating System: Memory Management
Networks: OSI model
DBMS : basics. they dint ask me any. Show case your interest in big data, servers and passion for technology
Skill Tips: Be confident, even if you don't know the exact answer don't give up tell your approaches to interviewer. some times they will also help you. Software Developer some question s you can ask are: what technologies do your company works on. how are freshers will be selected to different teams in the company.
Skills:
College Name: NIT Surathkal

Round: Other Interview
Experience: One year since I took the interview, so no idea exactly what questions they asked. But I was asked to write the code on paper in front of him and was asked to debug it. Some puzzles and aptitude questions along with other basic coding questions. It was great that the guy was interactive and started asking about my projects and college life.
Btw the answer to the logical question is: I should say " you will shoot me". Paradoxical.
Tips: Feel free to ask anything that you would like to know from them. Also frankly say that you don't know a certain topic if you have no clue what it is about. They don't like people wasting their time.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This was not exactly a technical interview. He asked me to write a code to find the day of week when a certain date in any year of the calendar is given. I answered it and then he starting asking general questions as to why do u want to join the company, etc.
I gave answers to most of them convincingly. But I kept him engaged by explaining my life at college, the extra curriculars I did at college. Also I asked him about his experience as a software engineer. I asked him to reflect upon his career and how I should approach about my career.
Tips: The best part about HR interviews is they expect you to ask them lots and lots of questions. The more they are engaged, the more are your chances of impressing and getting selected. And more importantly, ask the interviewer about his experience with the present firm. This also works with my manager when ever he has a one on one with me :P
Cheers and all the best.

Skills: Soft Skills, General Aptitude, LOGICAL THINKING ABILITIES, Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures
College Name: IIT Hyderabad

Round: Test
Experience: Programming section had basic questions on C++ & data structures.
Tips: Try to score maximum in aptitude test, they consider your score while placement.
Duration: 2 hours
Total Questions: 35

Round: Technical Interview 1
Experience: Questions asked during this round:
Introduce yourself.
Questions on projects & internships.
Questions on Final year project in detail (max part of interview was on final year project).
Basic concepts of C++.
Few programs on C++.
Puzzles.


Round: Technical Interview 2
Experience: ? 2 interviewers were there.
? Stressed interview.
? They grilled me a lot on C++ & data structures.
One interviewer started asking questions, and before I could complete my answer, another used to cut me in
middle & start asking another question. I realized it

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: He asked about technical topics and I gave answer with example.
Tips: Be ready with what you have written in CV with real scenario.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: She asked about reason to join, why leaving previous comp.etc
Tips: Explain your ambition and this company will provide me opportunities to fulfill those. Be realstic in answer. Should know about the company.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I think they were looking for Analytical ability (more in terms of thought process of approaching a problem), good awareness of financial crisis and general gyaan and willingness to work in markets (i.e. how convincing my reasons were etc). I wasn‟t tested too much on derivatives and puzzles, but I believe a few others had lots of questions in this area.

I think the personals & financial crisis questions went very well, pretty decent with the puzzles too. Started a bit slowly on the problems, but was able to arrive at the solution quickly once I had the hang of the question.
Tips: I prepared pretty well for derivatives & financial crisis. Though my approach was not very quick for the former, this was not a problem because I was not hurried for these questions and they were also seeing how I was approaching the solution. I was well prepared with the personals section – very clear on why I wanted markets, not consulting etc and I think I gave them nearly 6 reasons for Why Deutsche 

Round: Technical Interview
Tips: For most banks, and for Deutsche especially, be prepared with personals at three levels (Tell me about yourself etc | Why markets, why not consult / IBD etc | Why Deutsche). I had done my homework by speaking to seniors in this respect and I think
Name
Ashish Viswanathan
Educational Qualification
B. Tech Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras
Workex
Shell Global Solutions (1 year)
Summers Company & Role
Deutsche Bank Global Markets, London Associate

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my clarity of thought on these questions clinched it.

Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Make sure you understand what you are preparing in case of derivatives. Don‟t get caught up and confused by the math, learn the basics of why and how the derivatives work

Round: Technical Interview
Tips: Make sure you are well prepared with financial crisis / current affairs / bailout and efforts to fight the crisis. Have an opinion on issues like „Do you think it was right to not bail out Lehman?‟ etc and be prepared to defend your opinion

Skill Tips: Curiosity, “can-do” attitude, Gyaan on derivatives, basic excel skills, willingness to learn in a sometimes chaotic environment
Skills: basic excel skills, Curiosity To Learn
College Name: IIM Bangalore

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I think they were looking for A bit of quant smartness, else mostly culture fit and a strong resume.
Tips: Be calm and confident and honest.

Skills: Finance Basics, Puzzle Solving Capability
College Name: IIM Bangalore