Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Dallas, TXPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first technical step started with a quick screen that mixed basic behavioral questions with coding.

I got one easy and one medium LeetCode-style problem, including a data/algorithm task that involved processing marks across different students and another question focused on maps.

From there, things got tougher and more uneven. On one round I faced a medium LeetCode question involving a graph, plus a separate prompt where I was expected to implement a concept in Python. I couldn’t get the implementation to work in time, and that was enough to stop me from advancing. On another day, the interview felt uncomfortable and biased toward nitpicking: I was working on a graph-related problem, my

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