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Goldman Sachs | Associate | Bangalore | Dec 2024

Round 1: HackerRank Test

Questions: HackerRank Online Assessment test of 90 minutes, with 2 DSA questions (LC-Easy and LC-Medium) to solve. I have coded both the questions.

Candidate's Approach

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Interviewer's Feedback

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Round 2: CoderPad Virtual Interview

Questions:

  1. Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array
  2. Specific question not provided.
Candidate's Approach

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Interviewer's Feedback

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Round 3: DSA Round

Questions:

  1. Container With Most Water
  2. Take, No Take DP variation.
Candidate's Approach

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Interviewer's Feedback

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Round 4: DSA + Java Core Questions + Kafka

Questions:

  1. HASHTABLE vs HASHMAP vs CONCURRENT HASHMAP: Tradeoffs and Advantages.
  2. Concurrency (Optimistic vs Pessimistic): Recommendation: Watch Shreyansh Jain Video on Youtube.
  3. Kafka Internals: Advantages and Disadvantages over RabbitMQ.
  4. Find the longest increasing or decreasing subarray (EASY).
Candidate's Approach

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Interviewer's Feedback

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Round 5: OOPs + Java Internals + LLD + HLD + CN

Questions:

  1. OOPs based questions.
  2. Explain the whole process of how we deployed the code on cloud (Step by Step: how Java compiles, role of Maven, JAR vs WAR, JVM vs JDK vs JRE vs JIT, CI/CD pipelines steps).
  3. Implement an algorithm so that the user won't be able to ask for the OTP for resetting the password more than 3 times in the last 5 minutes (Rate Limiter).
  4. HTTP vs HTTPS, TCP vs UDP.
  5. Some HLD questions where you will implement this Rate Limiter Algorithm (CDN, Gateway, Load Balancers).
Candidate's Approach

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Interviewer's Feedback

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Round 6: TechnoManagerial Round

Questions: Introduction and brief discussion about my current company, projects, architecture, my contributions, etc. Mostly questions were from the points or skills mentioned in the resume.

Candidate's Approach

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Interviewer's Feedback

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Verdict: Selected
I got the offer letter after 3 weeks and have accepted the offer.

Compensation Details: Compensation Discussion
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