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Goldman Sachs SDE 2 interview experience

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Sept 2025

What the rounds test

  • Data Structures & Algorithms8 · 67%
  • System Design3 · 25%
  • Other1 · 8%

Question difficulty

  • Easy1 · 11%
  • Medium8 · 89%

Roles covered

Locations

Birmingham (1) · Bangalore (1)

Goldman Sachs SDE 2 interview experiences1–3 of 3

Questions asked in Goldman Sachs SDE 2 interviews

  1. 01

    Find Second Smallest Element in Array

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Easy

  2. 02

    Refactor Service Violating Single Responsibility Principle

    Other

  3. 03

    Design E-commerce Platform Architecture

    System Design

  4. 04

    Two Sum II - Input Array Is Sorted

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium

  5. 05

    Palindromic Substrings

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium

  6. 06

    Meeting Rooms II

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium

  7. 07

    Copy List with Random Pointer

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium

  8. 08

    132 Pattern (and count follow-up)

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium

  9. 09

    Fraction to Recurring Decimal (without division operator)

    Data Structures & Algorithms · Medium

  10. 10

    Find Prefix Occurrences in Document

    Data Structures & Algorithms

  11. 11

    First Non-Repeating Character in a Stream (Distributed)

    System Design · Medium

  12. 12

    Design LRU Cache

    System Design · Medium

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What does the Goldman Sachs SDE 2 interview focus on?

Across 3 Goldman Sachs SDE 2 interview experiences shared on Interview Experiences, the questions asked were mostly data structures & algorithms (67% of reported questions), system design (25% of reported questions), other (8% of reported questions).

How hard is the Goldman Sachs SDE 2 interview?

Candidates rated most Goldman Sachs SDE 2 questions as medium (89% of rated questions). Easy: 11%, Medium: 89%.

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