Blog # 24 : Goldman Sachs Interview Question 2009
Questions asked to Mr. Anshul Omar:
Technical interview 1:
- Tell something that happened in your life that made you feel exhilarated or tell about one of your achievements that you are proud of.
- Data Structures...stack and queues basic questions //code
- Dynamic programming //code
- Fibonacci algorithm (efficiently) //code
- Puzzle: Match box..weigh exactly once
- How would you ascertain whether a given list is a circular list most efficiently? //code
- Operating Systems fundamental questions
Technical interview 2:
- Data structures implementation or practical applications
- What are your favourite data structures and why?
- Implementation of stacks dynamically, and code for push and pop operation incorporating exception handling
- How to deallocate memory after pop operation...code for it including functions and return types
- A string is given and print it by removing all duplicated letters most efficiently
for e.g. " Hello world"....ans: Helo wrld..order doesn't matter.....I did it in O(nlogn) time. //code - Questions on coding in C/C++
- Database management basics
- Ques on projects....everything associated with it
- JSP, mySQL, AJAX etc. web development tools used in project
- OOP concepts
- Features of OOP model
- Types of programming languages
- What is the thing that excites you the most about GS?
and some more....
HR interview:
- Tell us about yourself
- Introduce yourself in context of academic background
- Scholarships that you have got in your entire scholastic career
- Why do you want to do an intern in GS?
- Why GS, why not any other corporation that has a mix of technological core and business analysis?
- What is investment banking, securities?
- What do you know about market analysis, shares,commodities etc.?
- Why should we take you?
- How would you benefit GS?
- What do you expect from us while doing an intern in GS?
- Extra-curricular
Questions asked to Mr. Shivasheesh :