Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

BangaloreCandidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started on CoderPad, where I worked through two different coding problems: one involved dynamic programming tied to a “stones” style prompt, and the other was a graph or grid question where I computed something like the number of islands using depth-first search.

After that, the interview moved into a more engineering-and-tools direction.

One round focused on data structures and SDLC-style topics. I remember conversations around using a trie for features like auto-correct/auto-complete, and also browser navigation using stacks. Testing and debugging came up too, so it felt less like a theoretical DSA test and more like an engineering workflow discussion. Then I shifted into system design and infrastructure thinking, with questions that touched distributed systems, caching strategies, and scaling tools like Kafka and MapReduce.

The final part was

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