Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

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SingaporePosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter call and then was scheduled for a live coding interview with a VP from another team.

The question itself was described as easy, but the live format still felt high-stakes because the session required me to show how I approached it in real time. After that first round, my next interview turned into a BFS/DFS style problem.

In the BFS/DFS round, I got partway through and worked with interviewer help, but I didn’t manage to attempt a second question within the time. The overall difficulty left me with the sense that the interviewers expected both correct traversal logic and the ability to move efficiently under pressure. I didn’t get an offer, and I remember feeling like the

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