Status: New grad, MS CS Top 40 CS school
Position: Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Location: New York City
I applied on the GS official website and got approched by recrutier about three months ago.
Technical phone screen
- Round 1: Phone interview with Software Engineer, 60 min
- Self Introduction, go through my background
- Leetcode #42. Trapping Rain Water
Nice people, easy to interact with. So I received a positive feedback.
- Round 2: Phone interview with Software Engineer, 30 min
- Software Design problem: Design a card game with mutiple 52-card decks and multiple players
For me it is diffcult to describe my solution only through words without any text editors like coderpad. I think I didn’t do well in this round.
- Round 3: Phone interview with Manager, 30 min
- Self Introduction, go through my background
- Java basic concepts:
major difference between Java 7 & Java 8
garbage collection
I didn’t answer the Java questions well and got rejected.