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