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Goldman Sachs Software Engineer Intern Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 14 Feb 2024

Goldman Sachs Software Engineer Intern Interview Experiences

2 interviews found

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

One easy and two medium leetcode

Round 2 - Video Call 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What motivates you
  • Q2. Tell me about yourself

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practice leetcode

I was interviewed before Sep 2020.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 90 Miinutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round contains 20 MCQ questions and 2 Coding questions and It was 90 minutes round
Timings were of the morning
This round was online on hackerrank platform
There was proper procuring with web cam 
MCQ questions were from aptitude and oops section
Coding Questions : 1st question is medium level question, 2nd was a little bit tough question for me
Overall it was medium level in toughness

  • Q1. Connect N Ropes With Minimum Cost

    You have been given 'N' ropes of different lengths, we need to connect these ropes into one rope. The cost to connect two ropes is equal to sum of their lengths. W...

  • Ans. 

    The problem is to connect N ropes of different lengths into one rope with minimum cost.

    • Sort the array of rope lengths in ascending order.

    • Initialize a variable to keep track of the total cost.

    • While there are more than one rope remaining, take the two shortest ropes and connect them.

    • Add the cost of connecting the two ropes to the total cost.

    • Replace the two shortest ropes with the connected rope.

    • Repeat the above steps unt

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Zero Matrix

    You are given a matrix 'MATRIX' of dimension 'N' x 'M'. Your task is to make all the elements of row 'i' and column 'j' equal to 0 if any element in the i...

  • Ans. 

    The task is to modify a given matrix such that if any element in a row or column is 0, then make all elements in that row and column 0.

    • Iterate through the matrix and keep track of rows and columns that contain 0s

    • After the first iteration, iterate through the tracked rows and columns and set all elements to 0

    • Handle the case where the first row or column contains 0 separately

    • To solve with O(1) space complexity, use the f...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Video Call 

(1 Question)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing = afternoon
Environment : it was on zoom call
Interviewer was friendly, he asked one question that was tough

  • Q1. Similar Strings

    You are given two strings, ‘A’ and ‘B’ each of length ‘N’. Your task is to print 1 if ‘A’ is similar to ‘B’.

    Note :

    String ‘A’ is said to be similar to string ‘B’ if and only if 
    1. ‘A’ ...
  • Ans. 

    The task is to determine if two strings are similar based on the given conditions.

    • Check if the strings are equal, if yes, return 1

    • Divide both strings into two parts and check if any combination satisfies the similarity condition

    • If none of the conditions hold true, return 0

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI applied for the job as Software Engineer Intern in BangaloreEligibility criteriaCGPA > 6.5Goldman Sachs interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data structures and algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Operating system, Database Management, C++Time required to prepare for the interview - 3 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Learn all basic data structures and algorithms 
Tip 2 : Try to solve some Aptitude questions
Tip 3 : Practice Lot of questions in C++

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : include at least one good project and prepare for it well
Tip 2 : make your resume Simple, One paged and well structures(you can use online templates)

Final outcome of the interviewRejected

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Easy to medium questions can be done easily

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Medium to hard level coding question 2

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Hacker Rank 2 easy questions like first unique occurance in string

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Java OOPS famous data structure time complexity 1 coding question easy.
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic HR Question Explain the projects that you have done.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you dont know then say I dont know but dont say wrong answers.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

3 coding que easy,med and hard

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Os related que What is kernel , OS types ,what happens after booting computr ,etc
  • Q2. Creat a array and print all elements , which database used for pdf storing sql or nosql
Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. OOps related que abstraction , inheritance , code it
  • Q2. Middel element of linked list
Round 4 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What challenges u faced in engineering?
  • Q2. Situational based questions
Round 5 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why u choose to work deustch bank ?
  • Q2. Project related quw
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Trapping rain water and median of two sorted array

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Oops and dbms questions?
  • Q2. Code question in Array and string?
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Regarding all basic java , sprint boot questions
  • Q2. More focused on Spring and microservices
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Advance java questions
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How does Django apply migrations to the database?
  • Ans. 

    Django applies migrations to the database using the 'manage.py migrate' command.

    • Django tracks changes to models and generates migration files accordingly.

    • The 'manage.py makemigrations' command creates migration files based on model changes.

    • The 'manage.py migrate' command applies the generated migration files to the database.

    • Migrations help keep the database schema in sync with the changes in Django models.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is hoisting in javascript?
  • Ans. 

    Hoisting in JavaScript is the behavior where variable and function declarations are moved to the top of their containing scope during the compilation phase.

    • Variable declarations are hoisted to the top of their scope, but not their assignments.

    • Function declarations are fully hoisted, meaning they can be called before they are declared.

    • Hoisting can lead to unexpected behavior if not understood properly.

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Assignment 

Create a full stack application in 3 days.

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain microservices.
  • Q2. OOPS

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - This was a contract-based position, so just 1 round of interviews was conducted.
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. System design basics
  • Q2. Java 8 stream api code
  • Q3. Current project
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Only arrogance related stuff
  • Q2. Only arrogance related stuff happened

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Too much arrogant people .
Not at all talented asked me everything theoretical ,no evaluation from logic building or coding perspective just some random stupid google questions based upon their own internal project work .
I am not happy with the style of evaluation also interviewer was too much arrogant and rude .never met these kind of people.
I do too belongs to equal product based,good technical background but never seen anyone rude to this level.

Goldman Sachs Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Goldman Sachs Software Engineer Intern interview?
Goldman Sachs interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Goldman Sachs interview process are Coding Test and Video Call.

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