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Got the offer

Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs

Difficulty
Process took
1-2 Weeks
Rounds
4
Format
Remote
Applied via
Company Website

How it went

  • For DSA problems, don’t skip over corner cases. Mention them explicitly while coding or explaining. For example, when explaining Count Submatrices With Equal Frequency, I explained the brute force → optimization, including potential pitfalls

What they would tell you

  • For DSA problems, don’t skip over corner cases. Mention them explicitly while coding or explaining. For example, when explaining Count Submatrices With Equal Frequency, I explained the brute force → optimization, including potential pitfalls

How to prepare

  • Seriously, they will drill you on whatever you list on your resume. I prepared full stories for my top projects

Round by round

  1. 1

    DSA Round 160 min

    Before this Round, I had already completed two earlier rounds Online Assessment (OA) and a CoderPad round This round started with introductions of the panel and then myself. Immediately after, we jumped into about my current and past projects. The interviewer grilled me extensively on technical decisions Then came the DSA problem, I solved it efficiently and was asked a few follow-up questions to discuss alternative approaches and edge cases.

  2. 2

    DSA Round 260 min

    This round also began with panel introductions. I was asked two medium-hard DSA problems Due to time constraints, I didn’t code fully, but I explained the brute-force approach and then the optimized solution

  3. 3

    Technical Interview /LLD60 min

    The core problem was to design a Car Rental System

    • Allow users to search available cars based on location
    • Reserve, cancel, or postpone bookings
    • Handle billing and payments efficiently I walked them through my design, including data structures, flow, and handling edge cases. This round tested both my design thinking and technical implementation skills.
  4. 4

    Managerial / Behavioral Round50 min

    This was the hard round of the entire process. the interviewer asked me to pick a project I was most proud of and explain it in detail Even though I had a fully prepared story, the interviewer remained unfazed and grilled me for about 40–45 minutes, mixing behavioral questions with pressure scenarios. I had to explain not just what I did but also why, how, and the impact of my decisions.

What came up

MediumRemote0 1 years

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