Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For a VP Software Engineer interview, I was hit with algorithmic questions that felt more like brain teasers than typical coding drills.

The screening questions started with a grid movement problem: a robot moves from (1,1) to (n,n) while collecting maximum value along the path. It was clearly about dynamic programming and getting the transitions right.

Then the next question was a game-style elimination problem. Candidates sat in a circle, and on each turn K hops happened and the selected candidate was eliminated. The goal was to determine the last candidate standing. It sounded like a known elimination pattern, but it still required careful reasoning rather than just applying a formula blindly.

The overall impression was

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