Goldman Sachs Software Engineer interview experience

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process ran across multiple rounds over two days, and the structure was clear about what each stage would test.

The first technical round started with quick data-structures questions that covered things like immutable versus mutable choices, differences between linear and non-linear structures, when to use hash maps, and how hash maps differ from tree maps. Then I jumped into a coding problem sourced from a coding practice website.

The second round felt more like engineering practice: it was conversational and focused on software development lifecycle details such as testing and deployment—less about algorithm tricks and more about how I worked end to end.

After that came system design. I was first

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