Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the OA, my process moved into a HireVue interview, and then it shifted into two back-to-back interview formats.

The first was a LeetCode hard coding question involving “catching rain water,” and I wasn’t able to get there fully enough. The next part was a system design round focused on building a library system.

The contrast between the rounds was intense: the coding question was the steep difficulty barrier, and the following system design conversation expected a separate kind of clarity. In the end, I didn’t make it through, and the rejection felt tied most strongly to the first, very demanding coding prompt.

What stood out to me was how the sequence didn’t give much recovery time. The hard problem

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