Goldman Sachs
Quantitative Strats Summer Analyst
Application
You apply to a business, not just a role, with up to four business-and-office choices. Review is rolling from mid-August with no deadline, so apply early.
HackerRank assessment
Web form · 30 + 22 min
Sent automatically on application. For strats applicants, two challenges since August 2026: Software Fundamentals, one data-structures-and-algorithms problem in thirty minutes, then a Math challenge of about eight multiple-choice questions on probability, statistics, calculus and linear algebra in twenty-two minutes. Proctored; no score is shown.
software fundamentalsSit this round →math challengeSit this round →Video interview
Web form · ~30 min
A one-way HireVue: about six questions, thirty seconds to prepare and up to two minutes to answer each, one take. A résumé walk-through, behavioural and ethics questions, and one question about the role. Taken once however many roles you applied to; deadlines are a few days. Some 2027-cycle candidates went straight from the assessment to the superday.
Sit this round →Superday
Virtual interview · 2 × 45 min
Two back-to-back interviews on Zoom with a CoderPad link, run by strats, mostly VPs and associates. Each opens on your résumé and a light behavioural question, then quick-fire probability and statistics at Green Book level, then a LeetCode easy or medium problem written live and run, then its complexity. The Zoom link arrives about two days before.
interview 1Sit this round →interview 2Sit this round →Decision
A phone call one to two weeks after the last interview, longer around the holidays. The team is named in the offer; there is no separate team match for summer analysts. In the 2027 cycle superdays began on 17 September and offers were out by late October.
Reconstructed from first-hand candidate reports and the firm's own published material. Problems in this track are original and format-faithful; nothing is copied from a live interview.