Goldman Sachs Coding Round Experience
Summary
I recently interviewed at Goldman Sachs for a backend role. The round lasted 75 minutes and included 2 behavioral questions and 2 coding tasks, all live on CoderPad.
Full Experience
I recently interviewed at Goldman Sachs for a backend role, and wanted to share my experience to help others preparing. The round lasted 75 minutes and included 2 behavioral questions and 2 coding tasks (all live on CoderPad).
Interview Questions (4)
Confidential Email Protocol
What would you do if you received a confidential email that wasn’t meant for you?
Coworker Taking Credit
What would you do if a coworker took credit for work you did?
Encoding with Asterisk Operator
Given a string representing an ingredient sequence, return the minimum number of characters required to build it using individual characters or a special * operator. * means "duplicate everything built so far".
Debug Function: Distance Between Words
Given a long block of text and two input words, the function was supposed to return the number of characters (including spaces) between the two closest occurrences of the words.