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Rejected

Analyst at Goldman Sachs

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

How it went

  • Practice explaining multiple approaches, even if one doesn’t work, show reasoning and alternatives.

What they would tell you

  • Practice explaining multiple approaches, even if one doesn’t work, show reasoning and alternatives.

How to prepare

  • For DSA rounds at top companies, know DP, Greedy, Graph

Their background

I graduated with B.Tech and have 1 year of experience working as software engineer at a startup. I applied for the Analyst role at Goldman Sachs

Round by round

  1. 1

    Coderpad60 min

    I was asked two questions Generate all unique substrings of a string for a given length, with proper exception handling From a forest (child → parent) mapping, find the root of the largest tree; if multiple, pick the smallest ID

  2. 2

    DSA Round60 min

    There were two interviewers, After a quick round of introductions, the first interviewer asked a few resume-related questions, which went well. Then the second interviewer started the DSA section with Maximum Number of Jumps to Reach the Last Index, not able to optimized

What came up

MediumRemote1 2 years

A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.

Sources

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