I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (Salt Lake City, UT) in Aug 2015
Interview
This only applies to people who are already working in the industry (vs brand new college recruits.)
I was directly contacted by a GS recruiter.
It took them over 6 weeks to complete the interview process and background check!
Step 1: You get pre-screened by the recruiter.
Step 2: Your resume gets floated around through several groups for which you might be a fit (and that have a head count budget to hire you.)
Step 3: Any groups that want to interview will let HR know they want to hire you.
Step 4: One or more phone interviews (more, if you are remote and will have to relocate.)
Step 5: One or more onsite interviews that will last 2 - 6 hours (if you have the time).
Step 6: If manager wants to hire you, then the recruiter comes back and negotiates your salary. There may be some back-and-forth phone calls on this if your salary requirements are higher then they anticipated.
Step 7: Assuming this all works out, then have to go through the background check. This typically takes at least 4 weeks!
Step 8: Assuming that you haven't decided to go work somewhere in the meantime, you'll get an offer and start date.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For software engineering roles, the questions revolve around how you would approach a problem.
For example, how would you design a REST service API for returning documents, that require long processing times, from a multi-terabyte storage, at request rates of 1/hour vs 1k/second?
Another might be:
What's a microservices architecture and under what typical circumstance would you want to refactor an existing service architecture into a microservice architecture?
Had Coderpad interview (45 mins), Superday Interview (45mins ,45 mins) virtually. they were DSA , DSA+ System Design. currently waiting for the update. 2 interviewers, were there in each rounds. DSA problems were Optimal approach and find average score
First round was hackerrank assessment having 2 coding questions. Then after clearing that, the first round of interview had Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score. I was not able to do it. Interviewer was very nice though
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode Hard question, similar to get the maximum score
One OA and coding round
I failed at first round since I cannot solve that lc problem, interviewer is from the office out of Japan,
OA is easy, got help with AI you can easily passed it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
one hard lc question.
4. Median of Two Sorted Arrays