Interview Experiences

Real candidates, real loops: every round, what was asked, and how it ended.

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Goldman SachsSoftware Engineer
Oct 2026

Two Phone Screens, Handwritten Onsite Code, Verbal Offer

A recruiter reached out to me and kept checking whether I minded being in the office 5 days a week (I told them several times that Amazon is 5 days too, so I'm hardly in a position to mind). First there was a 40 minute screening: write 2 SQL queries and fix a Java Spring API (I honestly could not figure out why the last two tests were failing). Camera on and screen recording the whole time. I loo…

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Goldman SachsQuantitative Researcher
Sep 2026

Two GSAM Quant Roles, Live Coding Plus TSP, Then No Headcount

I interviewed for two GSAM quant roles at the same time. Role one was more like a fund of funds kind of group. First round was live coding: power of ten and Newton's method square root. Second round was already the final round on-site: one medium problem that was not the usual kind, one expected value problem, and one round that was purely chatting about my experience. Role two was the equity SMA…

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Goldman SachsSoftware Engineer
Dec 2025

Two-Hour Online Assessment with Two Problems

2 hours to solve two problems: Transaction Segments Given an array transactionValues of length n, where transactionValues[i] is the transaction amount at time i. Count the number of contiguous subarrays that are strictly increasing and have length exactly k. Strictly increasing means: transactionValues[i] < transactionValues[i+1] < ... < transactionValues[i+k-1], i.e., every element must be stric…

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What are interview experiences?

An interview experience is a candidate's own account of a hiring loop — not a question bank entry. It tells you the shape of the process: how many rounds there were, what each round actually tested, how long the gaps between them ran, and what the recruiter said at the end. That context is the part a question list cannot give you.

How to read them

Weight recent write-ups more heavily — interview loops change, often within a year. Read several for the same company and role rather than one: a single account tells you what one interviewer asked, while five tell you what the bar is. Note the outcome badge too, since a rejection write-up usually explains the gap far more precisely than an offer one.

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Every published experience earns 50 XP, and each of the first 3 likes it receives in a day earns you 10 XP more. Likes must come from established accounts; like-for-like swaps and likes from your own second account are not paid. Write it while the details are fresh — the round order, the exact prompts, and how much time you were given are what the next reader needs.

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