Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up doing a shadow interview with an interviewer based in India.

The format was still a real coding exercise: I worked in Python to solve a coding problem, finishing in about 40 minutes, while another participant who wasn’t me finished faster in about 15 using a different language.

While I was solving it, the interviewer was positive and even praised me during the process, which made me feel like I was on track. But after it wrapped, the interviewer told me I didn’t pass, and the reason given was based on several issues that felt exaggerated rather than clearly material. That mismatch between encouragement during the coding and the final decision was

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