Goldman Sachs | Analyst | Rejected

Goldman Sachs Interview Experience

Online Assessment (OA): The OA was conducted on HackerRank. The questions were quite standard and easily available on LeetCode.

CoderPad Round:

1. IP Address Frequency: Given a list of log lines (each starting with an IP address), find the IP address that occurs the most number of times.
2. Trapping Rainwater Problem
3. Find Minimum in a Sorted Rotated Array

I was able to clear the CoderPad round easily. The next day, I received a call from the HR for the Superday round.

Superday - Round 1: Two DSA questions were asked:

1. Gas Station Problem – I struggled with this one and ended up spending around 45 minutes on it.
2. House Robber Problem – I quickly explained the approach and solution in about 5 minutes. Due to time constraints, the interviewer didn't ask me to code it.

Round 2: This round had two interviewers who deep-dived into my resume.

They asked several questions based on my experience and picked one of my projects to extend it into a problem-solving scenario. I couldn’t come up with a solution for it.

LRU Cache – I attempted it using a combination of LinkedList and HashMap, but the interviewers were expecting an approach using LinkedHashMap. I wasn’t very familiar with that, and as a result, got stuck and couldn’t solve it.

Got rejection mail today.