(This took a good 25-30 minutes) A strategy question. It would be asked, depending on which team you are being interviewed for. Mine was some apple seller problem. Her knowledge of real-world scenario helps. Advice is to observe things around you rationally. Write down the function to select a pivot element randomly in Quick Sort. Round 4: He asked me what a data structure is, and why do we use one. Explained to him. He asked some real-life examples of stack and queue. All I could give him was programming examples, but when he insisted on real-life examples, I gave him some weird made up not so real-life example. :-p As we were talking very much on each question. He felt like talking more, and from tech, he went around for some biggest learning from a mistake/biggest achievement of life kind of questions. There were other questions, too, which I can't seem to remember now. He told me that he is done with the interview and If I had any questions. About Goldman Sachs Managing the firm's corporate real estate portfolio and accompanying business services, our team takes an innovative approach to support the firm's core businesses, all while mitigating risk and driving commercial and operational efficiencies.
They may also be asked detailed problem-solving questions connected to their field. They may be asked how to derive a capital asset pricing model, how to write a program that shows bond yields against discounted cash flows, or even how to calculate location from the curvature of the Earth. Rising the Ranks Interviews for higher-ranking positions at Goldman Sachs, such as a partner, are very different. In fact, these may not involve typical interviews at all. Instead, the process is known as cross-ruffing. Divisional heads recommend people for partner, sometimes without the candidate's knowledge. Teams of Goldman Sach partners then interview one another about these potential partners, uncovering strengths and weaknesses of candidates that one person alone might not see. They scrutinize every aspect of the candidate's background, from each deal she has made to how she has generated profit for the company and how colleagues like her. Tips for Acing an Interview There are a number of things that job candidates can do to make themselves more appealing to Goldman Sachs.
( Employee and manager both having same fields) how do you create it? : Explained hashing internal working in Java (using hashcode and equals method. ) Q: Design a web crawler. Suppose We give one url to crawl, it returns 100 urls list as response, we hit on every url of the list, each of which also returns the list of 100 urls. Keep on hitting every url recursively until returned response list become zero. Explain OO design and system design both with emphasis on memory issues. : Explained OO Design. For System design, explained using Messaging queues. Face to Face round (30 mins): There were two interviewers, one was quite senior (VP kinda person), other was Senior engineer: Introduction, Project introduction, He noted highlighted points from intro. In CV, you have written that you improved slow loading of application. how did you do that? How will you improve it for a mobile application? How to improve API response time / optimise the APIs? How to make database queries faster or optimise the queries?
Given an array. Find a pair of elements whose sum = k. Expected Complexity: O(n*n) Convert a DLL to BST and vice versa. HR Interview: The HR interviews test your moral qualities like honesty, sincerity, loyalty, and team spirit by presenting you with a common situation. I was asked about the arrangements I would make to organize my friend's birthday party. I tried to consider all cases like inviting the close ones, ordering the cake, arrangement of music, etc. But the important point (which interviewer was expecting) was that being an organizer, I should order the flavor of cake which my friend likes and also order a veg cake if he/she is a vegetarian. He gave further situations in between to test my team spirit skills. An important suggestion for HR interviews could be that you should answer diplomatically rather than being blunt and speaking the truth. HR interviews also check whether you are adaptable to any given work condition or not. Suggestions: Always give a brute force solution first as sometimes interviewers expect the most simple solution.
How would you describe a database to someone who without technical knowledge. Flip 100 coins, probability of having more than 65 heads. Explain to me the Newton's method and give me the intuition why it works. How do you solve the Vasicek model? Explain Ito's lemma to me. A client calls you at 7pm, he wants a new functionality by 8am. You are not allowed to work overnight. The Client does not want to hang up. What do you do? The last guy I interviewed was from Harvard and has perfect grades – why should I hire you over him, given that you're much less impressive? Tell me a time where you make decisions without any data. Describe a time when you have made an error, what would you do to stop this from happening in the future? How many windows does the empire state building have? Sales / Product Manager / Operations Questions What makes GS stand out to you Describe the life cycle of trade Talk about a recent deal we've advised Who is the CEO of GS? What's your greatest fear about investment banking?