Goldman Sachs Coding Round Experience

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goldman sachs
backend role
May 2, 20254 reads

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)

Q1
Confidential Email Protocol
Behavioral

What would you do if you received a confidential email that wasn’t meant for you?

Q2
Coworker Taking Credit
Behavioral

What would you do if a coworker took credit for work you did?

Q3
Encoding with Asterisk Operator
Data Structures & Algorithms

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".

Q4
Debug Function: Distance Between Words
Data Structures & Algorithms

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.

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