Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview questions

“The O(1) constraint is what makes this non-trivial.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I've done this so many times it's basically muscle memory at this point.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into the crawler logic and spent way too long on the fetching layer before anyone asked about rate limiting or robots.txt compliance.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one took me a while to even set up the data model.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Sort ascending, greedily pick the smallest elements until adding the next one would hit or exceed k.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a second because I was expecting something about ML or statistics.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Row reduction is the move here.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard opener.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Went with a frequency map, two passes through the string.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I stared at this longer than I'd like to admit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Goldman Sachs, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.