You’ve landed an interview with Goldman Sachs. Well done: you’re in a serious minority. What should you expect? In the past, Goldman Sachs had a reputation for interviewing people until it hurts – putting potential hires through endless interviews with different Goldman staff just to check they’d be a ‘fit'.

Lately, things have changed. Goldman has adopted the Hirevue digital interviewing package, which is now being used to screen junior candidates in the U.S. and is being rolled out elsewhere soon. Hirevue requires candidates to record their responses to pre-recorded questions, with a 2-minute response time per question. Responses are assessed based upon their similarity to those given by the bank’s existing high performers, so anyone who makes it through Hirevue should be a fit (at least that’s theory). Even so, you can still expect to be interviewed by actual human beings further down the line.

We’ve assembled a list interview questions which Goldman Sachs candidates claim to have been asked at Goldman. Most of these were asked of candidates joining the firm at analyst or associate levels. 

While you should prepare for the sorts of questions below, the key thing to know before you interview at Goldman (and this applies to Hirevue interviews too) is that you need to be 100% familiar with everything in your resume. The firm itself says this is and most of the candidates who’ve interviewed there say they were heavily grilled on the minutiae of their CVs. For example, if you’ve written that you took a Java programming course back in 2012, be ready to talk about it – in depth.

Category Questions:

• Fit Questions from Goldman Interviews
• IBD (Investment Banking Division) Questions from Goldman Interviews
• Markets Questions from Goldman Interviews
• Tech Questions from Goldman Interviews
• Brain Teasers and Other Questions from Goldman Interviews