I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY) in Sept 2015
Interview
It's an easy interview if you prepared for programming and algorithms and want to pursue a career in quant. The interviewer is very nice, he firstly introduced the whole system of Goldman Sachs.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Went through your resume
how you have the approximate of square root of 37 ?
find the location of the number in an array. desrcibe the codes.
I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (São Paulo, São Paulo)
Interview
Puzzles (brain teasers), maths questions and programming challenges. The interviewers tried to understand how deep my knowledge was on each of the topics we talked about. There is no room for making stuff up, please don't try that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about this X thing I see on your resume (and then they proceed to ask about every detail, in order to understand how much you actually understand)
The interview process is not necessarily specific to the role but focus mostly on technical questions. It starts with a coding test (Coderpad) followed by a series of pair interviews with strategists/technologists. Expect brain teasers, math problems (probability) and the foundation of software engineering (algorithms, data structures, etc.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have a bag with 100 identical golf balls in it. Each ball is labeled by a number between 1 and 100 (no duplicates). By paying $1 per draw, you can pick one ball from the bag. Then you can either stop and you will be paid an amount in $ equivalent to the number on the ball or you can reinsert the ball in the bag and extract again. What is the optimal strategy to maximize the gain?
I applied online. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (London, England) in Sept 2023
Interview
Applied in September and got an invite to technical assessment a day after. It was two coding question and 9-10 multiple choice maths/stats/brainteaser problems.
I thought I answered well but did not progress further.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A brainteaser with a population wanting boys only.
