Goldman Sachs Coding Interview Questions

We track 256 coding questions asked at Goldman Sachs, tagged with the algorithms and concepts they test. The most common: Array, String, Hash Table, Dynamic Programming, Sorting.

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How many questions involve each concept

Share of all 256 tracked Goldman Sachs questions that touch each concept. Questions usually involve several, so these overlap.

Where Goldman Sachs differs from the average company

Concept weight at Goldman Sachs relative to the average across all companies we track. Green means Goldman Sachs leans on it harder than most.

Goldman Sachs specialties

Concepts that show up at Goldman Sachs but are rarely asked elsewhere. They are easy to get blindsided by.

Difficulty mix

Level split of the 256 tracked Goldman Sachs questions.

Junior18% (47)
Mid/Senior64% (163)
Staff18% (46)

Every concept in Goldman Sachs interviews

Concept	Questions	% of questions	Share of mix
Array	150	58.6%	20.2%
String	66	25.8%	9.9%
Hash Table	56	21.9%	6.3%
Dynamic Programming	55	21.5%	8.0%
Sorting	38	14.8%	4.0%
Math	33	12.9%	4.8%
Two Pointers	31	12.1%	4.2%
Binary Search	27	10.5%	3.4%
Matrix	26	10.2%	3.1%
Stack	24	9.4%	2.9%
Greedy	23	9.0%	2.8%
Breadth-First Search	21	8.2%	2.3%
Depth-First Search	18	7.0%	1.7%
Heap (Priority Queue)	18	7.0%	1.4%
Simulation	18	7.0%	2.3%
Linked List	17	6.6%	2.5%
Design	14	5.5%	1.3%
Prefix Sum	14	5.5%	1.8%
Recursion	14	5.5%	2.2%
Backtracking	13	5.1%	1.8%
Binary Tree	13	5.1%	1.3%
Tree	13	5.1%	1.3%
Sliding Window	12	4.7%	1.4%
Divide and Conquer	10	3.9%	0.9%
Bit Manipulation	9	3.5%	1.0%
Counting	9	3.5%	0.7%
Monotonic Stack	9	3.5%	0.9%
Queue	8	3.1%	0.7%
Trie	5	2.0%	0.4%
Union-Find	4	1.6%	0.4%
Binary Indexed Tree	3	1.2%	0.2%
Binary Search Tree	3	1.2%	0.2%
Data Stream	3	1.2%	0.2%
Doubly-Linked List	3	1.2%	0.3%
Enumeration	3	1.2%	0.4%
Graph Theory	3	1.2%	0.3%
Hash Function	3	1.2%	0.2%
Monotonic Queue	3	1.2%	0.2%
Ordered Set	3	1.2%	0.2%
Quickselect	3	1.2%	0.2%
Bucket Sort	2	0.8%	0.1%
Memoization	2	0.8%	0.2%
Segment Tree	2	0.8%	0.1%
Combinatorics	1	0.4%	0.1%
Concurrency	1	0.4%	0.4%
Eulerian Circuit	1	0.4%	0.1%
Geometry	1	0.4%	0.1%
Sweep Line	1	0.4%	0.1%
Merge Sort	1	0.4%	0.1%
Number Theory	1	0.4%	0.1%
Rolling Hash	1	0.4%	0.1%
Shortest Path	1	0.4%	0.1%
Suffix Array	1	0.4%	0.1%
Topological Sort	1	0.4%	0.1%

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