Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Birmingham, EnglandPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My CoderPad round started with two questions: one was a DSA problem and the other was a debugging task.

As I worked through them, the interviewer kept going with quick cross-check questions—asking about time complexity and how I would make the solution more efficient, plus space complexity. It felt like they wanted both the code and the reasoning behind every design choice.

Even though I went through the main problems, I didn’t move forward to an offer. The rejection was disappointing because the interview style was fairly interactive and discussion-heavy rather than purely algorithmic.

What stuck with me most was the way the follow-up questions kept tightening the loop around efficiency. I

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