Goldman Sachs
Investment bank; engineers build AI tooling and quant/ML models for markets
Interview in a few hours? A quick sprint for Goldman Sachs
AI in interviews
No outside tools, ChatGPT or search included, in HireVue or live interviews. The one sanctioned exception is the engineering HackerRank 'Software Diagnostics' challenge, which has a built-in, limited AI assistant you're expected to use with your own judgment.
Typical interview loop
How Goldman Sachs usually runs it for applied AI and LLM engineer roles.
- Focus: Motivation, communication
HireVue video interview
A recorded video interview of about 30 minutes with timed behavioral and motivation questions and no live interviewer.
- Focus: DSA, debugging, math
HackerRank assessment
A timed online test: a data-structures-and-algorithms section, a debugging task inside an existing app for engineering roles, and a math section for quant-leaning roles.
- Focus: Working code, explanation
Live technical screen
One or two live coding interviews, usually on CoderPad, where you solve easy-to-medium problems and explain your reasoning as you go.
- Focus: ML theory, probability, stats
ML and quantitative rounds
Technical rounds for ML and data roles that go deep on ML theory (loss functions, linear models, ensembles), probability and statistics, plus Python and SQL coding.
- Focus: Consistency, team fit
Superday
A block of two to five final interviews on one day with people you might work with, mixing coding, design and behavioral rounds.
How it weights your plan
Selecting Goldman Sachs when you build a plan multiplies each topic’s priority score:
Official prep and resources
Public candidate write-ups
- Interview Query: Goldman Sachs Data Scientist interview guide (5 candidate reports, 2026)9 Oct 2026 · medium confidence
- Exponent: Get a job at Goldman Sachs, interview process and top questions20 Feb 2025 · medium confidence
- Fortune: Goldman Sachs tells applicants not to use ChatGPT in interviews11 Jun 2025 · medium confidence
- Dataford: Goldman Sachs Machine Learning Engineer interview guide4 Sept 2026 · low confidence
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