Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

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My early process leaned heavily into math and programming exercises rather than a long technical narrative.

I went through an online assessment first, where the questions were mostly probability and math-focused, and it set the tone for how quantitative the screen would be.

After that, I hit an interview that still blended topics: I saw algorithms and data-structure style prompts alongside more probability thinking. One programming question involved selecting squares from a grid representing ethernet cable layout based on dimensions, and another part shifted into CPU scheduling where I had to calculate starvation time from process priorities. The whole session felt more like applying structured

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