Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a Goldman Sachs Software Engineer process that felt unusually slow from the first outreach to the later stages.

HR reached out to me through LinkedIn, and I started with an online assessment. The next steps included a CoderPad round followed by a superday, and scheduling stretched out over about three weeks before the superday could happen.

The main coding content centered on two prompts. One was the “Number of islands” problem, and the other was a 2D dynamic programming challenge similar in spirit to the “frog jump” style DP question at the medium level. After the HR call and assessment, I got interview scheduling for the coding round and then progressed into the superday track.

By the time I

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