Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

AVPPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got pulled into a Goldman Sachs process through a coding-focused assessment on CoderPad.

After the initial step, I had a problem-solving round that was basically two coding questions back to back. Both were framed in a very LeetCode way and, for the first prompt, it used the “High five” problem. The expectation felt strict: my solution had to run cleanly, and it wasn’t enough to just pass the sample—I needed additional test cases to work too. The second prompt was “High five” as well, so it felt like they really wanted correctness and robustness rather than creative interpretation.

The interview itself felt methodical. I worked through the logic, verified assumptions as I went,

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