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Goldman Sachs | Associate | Bengaluru | Aug 2024 [Reject]

OA

Questions:

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 1 (Coderpad)

Questions:

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 2 (Data structures)

Questions:

1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 7 → 8

Output should be:

1 → 8 → 2 → 7 → 6 → 3 → 5 → 4

Candidate was able to come up with the optimized approach but did not have time to code the solution fully.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 3 (Software Engineering Practices)

Questions:

a → b → c → a1 → b1 → c1 → ... → an → bn → cn

Output should be:

b → c → a → b1 → c1 → a1 → ... → bn → cn → an

Candidate wrote the code but encountered a bug that could not be identified during the interview. Confidence was lost during project discussions, affecting performance on the coding question.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

Candidate felt the interviewers in the last round were not friendly and were not convinced about the answers to the project/system design related questions.


Tips for Future Candidates

All the best to those who are preparing for the interview :)