Goldman Sachs interview questions
Online test → Technical → Technical → Technical
DSA
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Find the first non-repeating character in a string.
Detect and remove a loop in a linked list.
Reduce a string by removing K consecutive identical characters
Find the longest palindromic substring in a given string
Minimum Number of Platforms Required for a Railway/Bus Station
Find the median of two sorted arrays.
Implement a queue using two stacks.
Maximum path sum in a matrix
Reverse a linked list in groups of size k.
Find the longest palindromic subsequence in a string
Check if a number can be written as a sum of K prime numbers
Find the smallest subarray with sum greater than a given value
Find the maximum of all subarrays of size K using a sliding window.
Find the maximum sum path in a matrix from bottom-left to top-right
Find the minimum length subarray with sum greater than a given value
Convert a Binary Search Tree to a sorted doubly linked list in place.
Given an array of numbers, arrange them to form the largest possible number
Minimum number of platforms required for a railway/bus station given arrival and departure times
Given an array of N integers in the range [a, b] with five numbers missing, find the five missing numbers.
Egg Dropping Puzzle
Trapping Rain Water
Find the median of a stream of running integers
Detect a loop in a doubly linked list
Find the middle of a linked list in one pass.
Find the intersection point of two linked lists
Implement Run Length Encoding for a given string
Search an element in a row-wise and column-wise sorted matrix.
Rotate a given matrix by 90 degrees in anti-clockwise direction
Set Matrix Zeroes.
CS fundamentals
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Explain the Singleton design pattern
Explain the HashMap contract in Java.
Explain the internal working of HashMap.
How does HashMap work internally in Java?
Explain the internal working of HashMap in Java.
What is multithreading and how is it implemented in Java?
Explain Java 8 features
Explain OOP concepts in Java.
Explain the final keyword in Java.
What are the differences between C++ and Python?
Explain polymorphism in Object-Oriented Programming
Explain the difference between a process and a thread
Explain the difference between == and equals() in Java.
Explain method overloading and method overriding in Java.
Explain the contract between hashCode() and equals() in Java.
What is the difference between pointers and reference variables in C++?
Explain the difference between an interface and an abstract class in Java.
Puzzles
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100 Doors puzzle
Gold bar puzzle.
8 marbles puzzle.
Two pills puzzle.
Bag of coins puzzle.
Aptitude
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Reading comprehension questions based on passages
Find the tens digit of 2^130.
Probability-based puzzle problem
System design
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Design and implement an LRU Cache
Design a Library Management System
Design a rate limiter API
Behavioural
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Has technology taken over us or have we taken over technology?
For a project or assignment, describe a time you faced a major obstacle and what was the most exciting part of working on it.
In a two-person team project, how would you handle the situation if the other member faces a personal problem and cannot continue?
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What questions does Goldman Sachs ask?
Candidate interview reports most often cover DSA (49%) and CS fundamentals (29%).
How many rounds does Goldman Sachs interview have?
Candidate interview reports show an average of 4.3 rounds per experience, with a typical sequence of Online test → Technical → Technical → Technical. Individual interview paths can vary.
Is the Goldman Sachs interview hard?
Among questions with a reported difficulty, the mix is easy 31%, medium 58%, hard 11%.