Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a coding-focused interview where an associate with about five years of experience led the round.

The prompts were centered on two core topics: a hash map question with follow-ups, and then a graph question with more follow-ups. What surprised me was that I had to write my own test cases during the session.

The interview went well in terms of implementation—my hidden test cases passed. Even so, I was rejected. That mismatch between “the code worked” and “the decision was no” made the experience feel a bit unclear.

In retrospect, the rejection was probably about the reasoning quality or edge-case coverage beyond just passing tests, but the only concrete thing I could point to was that

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