Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Calgary, ABPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My most negative experience was a technical interview with a hiring manager.

The setup felt unusual and uncomfortable—there was no real introduction, and the camera angle made it hard to read the interviewer’s reactions clearly.

They gave me a graph problem. I explained my approach, wrote a solution that passed the default case, and I knew there was likely an edge case I still needed to handle. As I updated the solution, the interviewer seemed to take a discouraging tone, making dismissive comments and suggesting the logic would fail, with distractions like discouraging noises while I was working.

With limited time left, I ended up choosing to stop and requested to

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