Goldman Sachs - Offer Accepted - US

Position - Associate (Software Engineer)
Location - Dallas, TX
Status - F1 student (May 25 graduate), 3 years fintech exp

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Application Timeline -

• Apr 27: Applied via careers portal
• May 28: Email requesting availability for CoderPad screening
• Jun 06: Round 1 – CoderPad
• Jun 17: Advanced to virtual panel interview
• Jul 09: Virtual panel (3 rounds)
• Jul 10: Advanced to hiring‑manager interview
• Jul 11: Hiring‑manager round
• Jul 18: HR call (compensation and basic info)
• Jul 21: Preliminary immigration call with Fragomen
• Jul 24: HCM call — verbal offer, written offer received an hour later

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Interview Breakdown -

>All leetcode questions were GS tagged questions

Round 1 — CoderPad (60 min)

• 10–15 min: introductions and resume deep‑dive
• Coding:
  • Medium — BFS/DFS
  • Hard — two‑pointer
  • Fully working code with test cases required

Virtual On‑Site (three 60‑min rounds, all in CoderPad)

• Data Structures: Low‑level design; LeetCode‑style medium design problem
• Software Engineering Practices:
  • 40 min resume discussion
  • Medium binary‑search question (coded during remaining time)
• System Design & Architecture: System design — design a platform like LeetCode (more open-ended)

Hiring Manager Round

• Scheduled for 30 min but lasted over an hour
• Purely behavioral questions
• Second half was mainly about the team and day-to-day activities

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Hope this helps anyone on a similar journey — good luck and happy grinding!

PS: I did use ChatGPT to refine the post.