Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

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Tampa, FLPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial screening, I landed in a first technical round that was a pretty standard mix of behavioral prompts and two LeetCode-style problems—one that felt easier, and one that was more medium.

One question asked me to work through highest scores across exam marks for different students, and the other involved map-related logic.

That technical round ended up feeling unusually tense because of how the conversation went. I was given a graph problem and talked through my approach while coding, and the solution passed the default behavior—but I could see I was likely missing an edge case. As I adjusted the logic, the interviewer made distracting, discouraging comments and kept implying my approach would fail without what I’d used to get it to pass. With only about twenty minutes left,

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