I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Goldman Sachs (New York, NY)
Interview
I networked at an on-campus recruiting event at my university. I seemed to impress some of the recruiters, who quickly passed on my resume to strategist teams at several of the trading desks. I was contacted over email about a week later and set up a phone interview for 3 days later. The phone conversation lasted 60-70 minutes. I was incessantly grilled on technical questions about finance, probability theory, and computer programming - no warm fuzzies or pleasantries were exchanged whatsoever.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Consider a random walk on a graph in the shape of the capital letter Y, with nodes at A and B at the top, C at the bottom, and O in the center. With probability 1/3, there is a transition from O to A, B, or C that takes 1 time unit to complete. Find the expected time to get to C, starting at A.
I was asked if I knew anything about sorting algorithms or macros in C. I went completely belly-up on this question, because I didn't know anything about either of them.
