Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview was just a single round, and it covered a surprisingly wide range of topics.

The interviewer started with a quick conversation and then went straight into operating systems questions, beginning with fundamentals like what a thread and a process are and why they’re needed. From there, the conversation expanded into details like programming language concepts and how different parts of systems relate.

After the OS-heavy discussion, there was coding too. I ended up implementing an LRU and LFU-style cache logic, and then I solved a separate coding task involving building the right view of a binary tree.

I didn’t receive an offer, but the round was memorable because it

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