Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Analyst interview experience

The session was short—around half an hour for me—and I had tight timing with only a brief window to prepare before recording. There were several questions total, mixing behavioral prompts with division-specific topics, and a couple of the behavioral questions were the kind that forced me to slow down and think internally about my leadership and how I’d respond under pressure.

As I moved forward, the interviews got much more intense and the overall difficulty jumped. I ended up facing a large set of conversations—seven interviews overall—where the first stretch was behavioral, the next