The Goldman Sachs interview process, explained

Every stage of Goldman Sachs campus hiring, why there are no games despite what prep sites say, how the India route differs, and where to practice the recorded interview.

By the Game Assessment Prep research teamUpdated September 11, 2026How we research

The Goldman Sachs interview rounds at a glance

1Online application (rolling review) — Apply on the Goldman Sachs careers site. Goldman reviews applications throughout the season rather than in a deadline batch, and publishes no closing date for Americas or EMEA Summer Analyst — "We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply as soon as you are ready."Deadlines and windows
2HireVue recorded video interview — approximately 30 minutes — Goldman's stage 5: "you will be asked to participate in a video interview, which will take approximately 30 minutes to complete." One-way and recorded — you read a question on screen, get a short prep window, then record with no interviewer present. Goldman names HireVue itself in the next stage.Goldman interview questions Practice recorded answers
3HackerRank coding assessment — engineering applicants only — Same stage, Goldman's own words: "Engineering applicants will be asked to take a HackerRank assessment." It is in addition to the video interview, not instead of it. We have no HackerRank practice route and will not pretend otherwise.
4Superday — typically two to five interviews — Goldman's stage 6: "Typically, we conduct between two and five interviews for campus hires, depending on the division. You can expect to meet a cross-section of people whom you could possibly work with." Note that Goldman says two to five, not the "three to five" prep sites repeat.What each round covers
5No games, and no published aptitude test — Goldman's six-step process contains no game-based assessment and no numerical, verbal or inductive reasoning stage. The one official mention of a test anywhere is India-specific and names no vendor.Why the pymetrics claim is wrong

What games are in the Goldman Sachs assessment?

There is nothing to practice here, and that is the honest answer rather than a gap in our research. Goldman Sachs sends no game-based assessment on any route we could evidence — not HireVue games, not pymetrics, not Arctic Shores, not Aon/cut-e, not Criteria. Goldman's own six-step process page contains no games stage and no aptitude stage. If you arrived expecting a game battery because a prep site or an AI answer listed Goldman on a pymetrics client roster, the section below explains exactly why that claim has nothing behind it. Put your preparation into the recorded video interview instead — and, if you are an engineering applicant, into coding practice for the HackerRank assessment.

Game-based assessment: none, on any evidence

Category practice

No evidence found

Goldman's published campus process is application, then a roughly 30-minute recorded video interview (plus HackerRank for engineers), then a Superday of two to five interviews. No games stage appears in it, and we found no vendor case study or candidate report describing games at Goldman. Practicing a game battery for Goldman would be preparing for something nothing suggests exists.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (the six-step process)

pymetrics: no evidence, now or historically

Category practice

No evidence found

The most common misconception about Goldman hiring. Prep sites and AI answers list Goldman among pymetrics clients, but no invitation, candidate report, vendor case study or official page supports it — and the most-cited of those pages contradicts itself inside one article, asserting the pymetrics deployment and then stating that candidate reports show Goldman screening by HireVue video interview instead. We also found no evidence either way that Goldman ever used pymetrics in the past, so we do not claim it "retired" pymetrics; we claim only that nothing shows it used it. If you want to see what a genuine pymetrics employer looks like for contrast, Blackstone's campus process runs twelve pymetrics games plus a one-way video — unlike Goldman, which sends no games at all.

Source: Targeted re-checking of prep-site pymetrics rosters against Goldman's own process page, 11 September 2026

A real pymetrics employer, for contrast: Blackstone

Arctic Shores, Aon/cut-e and Criteria: no evidence

Category practice

No evidence found

We searched for each of these at Goldman and found nothing at any tier — no official page, no vendor case study, no candidate report. This assumption is usually imported from other finance and professional-services employers that genuinely do use them. Do not expect those tasks from a Goldman invitation.

Source: Targeted searches for Arctic Shores, Aon/cut-e and Criteria at Goldman Sachs, 11 September 2026

SHL-style reasoning tests: not confirmed on any route

Category practice

No evidence found

Prep sites assert an SHL numerical, verbal and inductive battery with percentile cutoffs. Goldman's own process page has no test stage, and none of those sites cites an invitation, a candidate report or an official source. We publish no cutoff number for Goldman because nobody who published one can show where it came from. The single official mention of a test on any Goldman route is the India campus page's "written/online test and/or group discussions", which names no vendor — so if you are an India campus candidate facing that test, its provider is honestly unknown and general timed reasoning practice is the sensible hedge rather than a branded one.

Source: Goldman Sachs India, Process for Students (test named, vendor not named)

Good to know: Nothing on this page is a Goldman game list, because Goldman has no game list. If your Goldman invitation does name a game-based assessment or a branded reasoning test, that would be genuinely new information that contradicts Goldman's own published process — tell us, and we will correct this page. Until then, the invitation email is the only document that binds, and everything Goldman itself publishes points at a recorded video interview, a HackerRank assessment for engineers, and interviews.

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Who gets the Goldman Sachs assessment?

Goldman Sachs is a video-interview employer, not a games employer. Its own "Students: Prepare" page lays out a six-step process — plan your timeline, choose your path, connect with us, submit your application, first interview, Superday — and the first interview is a roughly 30-minute one-way recorded video interview. Goldman names the platform itself, in the wording of the following stage: "If selected following your HireVue interview, you'll be invited to a series of final round interviews." Engineering applicants additionally take a HackerRank assessment, which Goldman also names. That is the whole assessment stack on the published campus path.

The reason this page exists is that a large share of people searching for a Goldman Sachs assessment arrive expecting games. They have been told, by prep sites and by AI answers repeating those prep sites, that Goldman sends pymetrics. It does not, on any evidence we could find. No invitation, no candidate report, no pymetrics case study and no Goldman page supports it, and one of the very pages asserting it also states, under its own heading, that Goldman screens by HireVue video interview rather than pymetrics games, and tells readers to confirm the format with a recruiter. That is prep-site copying, not a fact about Goldman. We searched specifically for Arctic Shores, Aon/cut-e and Criteria at Goldman too, and found nothing at any tier.

The strongest form this negative can take is that it comes from the employer's own document. We fetched Goldman's process page and checked it: the word "game" does not appear on it once, and there is no aptitude or psychometric stage in any of the six steps. Several prep sites nonetheless assert an SHL battery — numerical, verbal and inductive — with percentile cutoffs. Every one we checked cited no invitation, no candidate report and no official source, and one openly labels its own cutoff numbers as estimates from unverified self-reports. We will not publish a cutoff number for Goldman, because no one who published one knows it.

One genuine complication: Goldman runs two materially different early-careers paths, and they must be kept apart. The global campus path above covers the Americas and EMEA. India campus hiring runs through college placement cells on a separate official page that describes pre-placement presentations, then a written/online test and/or a group discussion, then final interviews — and that page does not name HireVue at all. If you are an India campus candidate, do not assume the video interview; and the provider of that India written/online test is not named by Goldman, so it is honestly unknown.

2027 Summer Analyst Program (Americas)

A nine-to-ten-week summer internship for undergraduates, usually in the third or penultimate year of study, running Summer 2027. Goldman states "Applications for select businesses are now open" — meaning divisions open at different times rather than on one date. No deadline is published on the program page.

Official source

Source: Goldman Sachs careers, 2027 Summer Analyst Program (Americas)

2027 Summer Analyst Programme (EMEA)

A nine-to-ten-week summer internship. Eligibility, in Goldman's words: "candidates currently pursuing a Bachelors or Masters university degree and in their penultimate or final year of study." Applications are open, and the page states the review model plainly: "We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply as soon as you are ready."

Official source

Source: Goldman Sachs careers, 2027 Summer Analyst Programme (EMEA)

New Analyst Program (Americas, full-time)

The full-time entry program for final-year undergraduate and graduate students, starting Summer 2027. Eligibility: "Students graduating with an undergraduate or graduate degree between December 2026 and July 2027." Select businesses are open now, which is consistent with Goldman's own warning that "you may hear back regarding different roles at different times."

Official source

Source: Goldman Sachs careers, New Analyst Program (Americas)

2027 Summer Associate Programme (EMEA, Engineering and Quantitative Strategists)

A ten-week internship for graduate students "currently working towards an advanced degree, such as a PhD, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, data science, sciences and other quantitative disciplines." Applications are open for Summer 2027. Because this is an engineering and quant track, expect the HackerRank assessment alongside the video interview.

Official source

Source: Goldman Sachs careers, 2027 Summer Associate Programme (EMEA)

2027 Summer Analyst Program (India)

An eight-to-ten-week summer internship for undergraduate and postgraduate students graduating in 2028. Goldman states "Applications will open July 1st." Open across a wide division list including Engineering, Investment Banking, FICC and Equities, Asset Management, Global Investment Research, Risk, Controllers, Operations, Legal, Tax, Compliance and Wealth Management. This program sits on the India route, not the global campus one.

Official source

Source: Goldman Sachs careers, 2027 Summer Analyst Program (India)

Goldman Sachs India Hackathon (GSIH) — the 2026 cycle, now closed

A 12-hour coding challenge across two days in CS and Quant tracks, run online, with top performers "fast-tracked to a Pre-Placement Interview (PPI)". Open to engineering students graduating in 2027 and 2028 from a published list of eligible colleges. Registration required a HackerRank community account — independent official confirmation that HackerRank is Goldman's coding platform. The 2026 dates are past; a 2027 equivalent on a similar spring timetable is a reasonable expectation but not a published date.

Official source

Source: Goldman Sachs careers, India Hackathon (GSIH) 2026

Emerging Leaders Series (Americas) — existence only

An early-engagement program listed on Goldman's careers site, described as including business-specific training, interview preparation, networking and engagement with senior leaders. We surfaced the page but did not fetch it in this research, so treat anything beyond its existence as unverified and read the official page before relying on it.

Single source

Source: Goldman Sachs careers (page not fetched in this research)

How does the Goldman Sachs assessment work?

Goldman names HireVue itself

Official source

This is rare. Most employers never name their assessment vendor, but Goldman's own student process page does it in passing: stage 6 opens "If selected following your HireVue interview, you'll be invited to a series of final round interviews." You can treat HireVue as fact rather than as a prep-site inference. Note what product that is — the one-way recorded video interview described in stage 5, not a game battery.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (the six-step process)

Approximately 30 minutes, and that is the only timing Goldman publishes

Official source

Stage 5 reads: "If your application is selected, you will be asked to participate in a video interview, which will take approximately 30 minutes to complete." Goldman publishes no question count, no per-question preparation or recording time, and no retake policy. Secondary sources commonly report roughly four to six questions with a short prep window, but the quoted range across sources actually runs from four to eight questions and 15 to 30 minutes total, and the main candidate forums were unreachable during this research. Treat the numbers as reported, not fixed, and assume no retakes unless your invitation says otherwise.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (the six-step process)

Engineering applicants also take a HackerRank assessment

Official source

Goldman's wording, in the same first-interview stage: "Engineering applicants will be asked to take a HackerRank assessment." It is in addition to the video interview. Goldman also requires a HackerRank community account for its India Hackathon, which independently confirms HackerRank as its coding-assessment platform. We do not have a HackerRank practice route on this site and will not invent one — prepare that stage with data structures and algorithms practice elsewhere.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare; India Hackathon registration requirements

Superday is two to five interviews, in Goldman's own words

Official source

"Typically, we conduct between two and five interviews for campus hires, depending on the division. You can expect to meet a cross-section of people whom you could possibly work with." Prep sites widely repeat "three to five"; that is not Goldman's figure. Candidate accounts describe each interview as roughly 30 minutes, back to back, with a mix of analysts, associates and vice presidents — reported, not official.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (the six-step process)

No game-based assessment, on the employer's own page

Official source

Goldman's published six-step process runs application to video interview (plus HackerRank for engineers) to Superday. There is no games stage in it — we checked the page text and the word "game" does not occur on it. No vendor case study and no candidate report we could read describes games at Goldman either. This is about as strong as a negative gets: it is an absence on the employer's own process document, not merely an absence of positive reports.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (the six-step process)

The pymetrics claim is folklore, and one source refutes itself

No evidence found

Goldman appears on pymetrics "client lists" across prep sites and in AI-generated answers. We went back to the most-cited of those pages to test it. In the same article it asserts that Goldman deploys pymetrics for summer analyst and new analyst applications, and then, under its own heading asking whether Goldman still uses pymetrics, says candidate reports indicate Goldman has moved significant parts of its screening to HireVue video interviews rather than pymetrics games, and advises readers to confirm the current format with a recruiter. It cites no invitation and no official source for either side. A competing prep page says flatly that Goldman does not use pymetrics. We found no evidence Goldman uses pymetrics now, and no evidence either way that it ever did — so this page says exactly that, rather than claiming a retirement it cannot show.

Source: Targeted re-checking of the pymetrics claim against Goldman's own process page, 11 September 2026

No SHL-branded or reasoning-test stage is confirmed anywhere

No evidence found

Several prep sites describe a psychometric stage — an SHL numerical, verbal and inductive battery, some with percentile cutoffs in the seventies and eighties. Goldman's own six-step process has no test stage at all. The sites asserting it cite no invitation, no candidate report and no official source, and one labels its own cutoffs as estimates drawn from unverified self-reports. We will not publish a cutoff number for Goldman. If you are genuinely sent a reasoning test, it would most likely be role- or region-specific rather than part of the standard campus path.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (no test stage in any of the six steps)

The India campus route is a different shape, and its test provider is unknown

Official source

Goldman's India "Process for Students" page describes attending pre-placement presentations on campus, applying through placement cells or the GS careers site, then "Complete written/online test and/or participate in group discussions", then final round interviews. This is the only official mention of a test on any Goldman route — and the page names no vendor for it, and does not name HireVue anywhere. So: a written/online test may exist for India campus candidates, its provider is genuinely unknown, and a group discussion is a stage that has no Americas or EMEA equivalent.

Source: Goldman Sachs India, Process for Students

India engineering, off the placement-cell route: HackerRank then technical rounds

Multiple sources

Candidate write-ups of Goldman's India engineering drives describe a proctored HackerRank online test — one detailed account reports six sections, 66 questions and 90 minutes with negative marking, covering numerical computation, CS fundamentals and coding — followed by coding and DSA rounds on a shared-screen pad, one or two technical rounds, a hiring-manager round and an HR round. Section counts and marking vary between accounts and cycles, and Goldman publishes no structure, so treat this as one reported example rather than the current standard. The same accounts describe no HireVue stage, no gamified assessment and no psychometric test on this route.

Source: GeeksforGeeks, Goldman Sachs recruitment process (aggregated India candidate reports)

How the recordings are reviewed is not published — and do not assume facial scoring

No evidence found

Goldman does not say how it reviews HireVue recordings, and no HireVue statement specific to Goldman was found on AI scoring. Prep sites assert AI scoring with human review; that is unsourced. What you should not do is prepare for facial-expression or body-language scoring: HireVue has publicly discontinued visual analysis in its pre-hire algorithms, so that advice is both unsourced and out of date. Prepare the content and delivery of your answers.

Source: No Goldman or Goldman-specific HireVue statement on scoring was found, 11 September 2026

Press reported an AI-use restriction in EMEA campus recruiting (June 2025)

Single source

Fortune reported that Goldman's EMEA campus recruitment team told applicants to one program — its private investing academy — that "Goldman Sachs prohibits the use of any external sources, including ChatGPT or Google search engine, during the interview process", tying the guidance to the short prep window of the recorded format. That was one team and one program; whether the guidance now applies firm-wide is not confirmed. The safe reading regardless: prepare however you like beforehand, and sit the live recording unaided.

Source: Fortune, Goldman Sachs tells students to stop using ChatGPT in interviews (June 2025)

The HireVue relationship dates back to 2016

Official source

HireVue's own blog, dated 27 June 2016, recorded that Goldman "will no longer be conducting in-person first round interviews for undergraduates on college campuses" and that "Goldman Sachs will be using HireVue for all on-campus undergraduate interviewing." Useful for origin, but it is a ten-year-old vendor post and it describes video interviewing only, with no game-based product mentioned. The current evidence that matters is Goldman's own page naming HireVue today.

Source: HireVue blog, "Goldman Sachs Redesigns Campus Interviewing" (27 June 2016)

What happens in the Goldman Sachs hiring process?

Americas and EMEA campus: the six published steps

Goldman publishes this process itself, which is why almost every claim in this section is official.

1Plan your timeline, choose your path (division), and connect with Goldman at events — Goldman's own first three steps, before you apply.
2Submit your application on the Goldman careers site. Review is rolling: you hear back shortly after submitting to confirm receipt, later in the season with a status update, and at the end of the season. You can check status in the application portal.
3First interview: a roughly 30-minute one-way recorded video interview on HireVue. Engineering applicants additionally take a HackerRank assessment.
4Superday: typically between two and five interviews for campus hires, depending on the division, meeting a cross-section of people you could work with. Candidate accounts describe roughly 30 minutes each, back to back, with analysts, associates and vice presidents.
5There is no games stage and no aptitude-test stage anywhere in this sequence.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (the six-step process)

India campus: a different route that does not name HireVue

Goldman maintains a separate official process page for India students, and its shape differs at every stage after the application.

1Attend pre-placement presentations and information sessions held on college campuses.
2Apply through placement cells or career services, or through the GS careers website.
3Shortlisted students are invited to the interview process.
4Complete a written/online test and/or participate in group discussions. Goldman names no vendor for this test, and the group discussion has no Americas or EMEA equivalent.
5Shortlisted students are invited to final round interviews.
6This page does not name HireVue anywhere, so India campus candidates should not assume the recorded video interview as a matter of course. Off-campus and lateral applicants in India do report a different experience again — see the engineering route below.

Source: Goldman Sachs India, Process for Students

India engineering (reported): HackerRank test, then multiple technical rounds

Goldman publishes nothing about this structure; everything here comes from aggregated candidate write-ups and varies between accounts and cycles.

1A proctored online test on HackerRank. One detailed account reports six mandatory sections, 66 questions and 90 minutes with negative marking, spanning numerical computation, CS fundamentals and coding — other accounts differ, so do not treat those numbers as the current standard.
2A coding or DSA round conducted on a shared-screen collaborative pad, with the interviewer watching your reasoning rather than only your final answer.
3One or two further technical rounds covering data structures, algorithms, CS fundamentals and system design basics.
4A hiring-manager round on technical depth, prior projects and team fit.
5An HR round.
6These accounts describe no HireVue stage, no gamified assessment and no psychometric test on this route.

Source: GeeksforGeeks, Goldman Sachs recruitment process (aggregated India candidate reports)

What the video interview and Superday actually ask

Goldman points students at its financial results, business principles and core values before interviewing, which tells you what the motivation questions are testing for. Our researched question bank for this stage is at /hirevue/questions/goldman-sachs.

1Why Goldman Sachs specifically — not why investment banking in general. The single most reliable question, and the one most often answered generically.
2Why this division and this program. Division fit recurs at both stages, and Goldman expects you to have read its divisional descriptions before applying.
3Competency and behavioral stories: working in a team, a time you failed, working under pressure, overcoming a challenge. Structure them as situation, task, action, result — the recorded format punishes rambling harder than a live interview does.
4A resume walkthrough with follow-up probing on what you personally did, not what the team did.
5Commercial awareness: a deal, a market story or a company you have been following, and a view on it you can defend.
6At Superday, division-specific technicals — valuation, accounting and DCF or merger mechanics for investment banking; products, instruments and market structure for FICC and Equities. Engineering candidates face live coding instead.

Source: Goldman Sachs, Students: Prepare (the six-step process)

When is the Goldman Sachs assessment?

Goldman publishes almost no dates. The Americas and EMEA Summer Analyst programs are reviewed on a rolling basis with no published deadline, which changes the strategy: at a deadline-driven employer you can apply on the last day without penalty, and here you cannot. The one place Goldman publishes hard dates is its India Hackathon. Everything below was checked on 11 September 2026.

Cycle	Application dates	Likely assessment window	Evidence
2027 Summer Analyst, EMEA and Americas	None published — rolling review	Video interview invitations follow application on a rolling basis through the season	Official source Goldman states applications are open for both regions and that "We review applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply as soon as you are ready." No closing date appears on either program page; Goldman directs candidates to the individual opportunity on the application page. Specific opening dates circulating on secondary sites are unverified by Goldman. The practical consequence is simple: because review is rolling rather than deadline-batched, applying early matters more here than at employers with a fixed cutoff. Source: Goldman Sachs careers, 2027 Summer Analyst Programme (EMEA)
New Analyst Program 2027 (Americas, full-time)	None published — select businesses open, rolling review	Rolling through the recruiting season	Official source Open to students graduating between December 2026 and July 2027, with a Summer 2027 start. "Applications for select businesses are now open" means divisions open at different times, which is why Goldman warns that "you may hear back regarding different roles at different times." Source: Goldman Sachs careers, New Analyst Program (Americas)
2027 Summer Analyst, India	Not published; Goldman states applications open July 1st	Follows placement-cell and campus schedules rather than a global window	Official source For students graduating in 2028. Because India campus hiring runs partly through college placement cells, the operative timetable is often your college's rather than Goldman's — the campus visit date sets the test and interview dates. Source: Goldman Sachs careers, 2027 Summer Analyst Program (India)
Goldman Sachs India Hackathon 2026 (past — shown for the pattern)	10 May 2026 (closed)	23 May 2026 (Quant) and 24 May 2026 (CS), 9am to 9pm IST, 12 hours	Official source The one place Goldman publishes hard dates: registrations opened 22 April 2026, applications closed 10 May 2026, and the contest ran on 23 and 24 May 2026 online, individually, for 12 hours each day, followed by a mentorship session in June and an on-campus finale. These dates are past and this is not an open opportunity. A 2027 cycle on a similar spring timetable is a reasonable expectation, but that is inference and not a published date — watch the official page. Source: Goldman Sachs careers, India Hackathon (GSIH) 2026
Stage-to-stage gaps (all regions)	Not published by Goldman	Typically a few days to complete the video interview once invited — check your invitation for the binding date	Anecdotal Goldman publishes no stage-to-stage timings at all. Prep and coaching sites offer figures such as one to three weeks from application to video-interview invitation and one to three weeks from video interview to Superday, but these are unsourced and vary widely. What Goldman does say is more useful: review is rolling, you get a status update later in the season and a final answer at the end of it. Long silences between stages are normal at Goldman and are not by themselves a rejection. Source: Prep and coaching sites (no primary evidence); Goldman's own status-update cadence

How to practice for the Goldman Sachs assessment

Preparing for Goldman is unusually simple to scope, because there is no assessment battery to grind. The whole first screen is a roughly 30-minute recorded video interview, so your preparation is content plus delivery: what you say about Goldman, your division and your own experience, and how tightly you say it into a camera with no interviewer reacting. Engineering applicants add coding practice for HackerRank. Nobody needs to practice games for this employer.

The one thing the recorded format genuinely punishes is under-rehearsed structure. In a live interview an interviewer will redirect you; in a one-way recording nothing stops you talking past the point. Goldman publishes no question count or per-question timing, so build answers that work at roughly 60 to 90 seconds and can be cut shorter, rather than answers that assume a fixed window. Record yourself at least once before the real thing — almost everyone is surprised by the first playback.

Step 1

Lock your division answer before anything else

Goldman asks why the firm and why the division at both stages, and different interviewers compare notes at Superday. Read Goldman's own divisional descriptions, its financial results and its business principles — Goldman points students at exactly those — and be able to say what the division does, why it suits you, and what you would be doing day one.

Step 2

Rehearse recorded answers, not written ones

Draft five or six answers — why Goldman, why the division, a teamwork example, a failure, working under pressure, a market or deal you follow — then say each one out loud to a camera and watch it back. Target 60 to 90 seconds. Goldman does not publish the question count or the prep and recording times, so do not build answers that depend on a specific window, and assume you get one take unless your invitation says otherwise.

Step 3

Practice the actual question set

Our researched Goldman Sachs question bank at /hirevue/questions/goldman-sachs covers the motivation, competency and commercial-awareness prompts reported at this stage, and /mock-interviews/goldman-sachs lets you rehearse them under recording conditions rather than reading them.

Step 4

Engineering applicants: do coding practice, not game practice

HackerRank is Goldman's coding platform, named on its own page and required for its India Hackathon. Drill data structures and algorithms at roughly medium difficulty — arrays, strings, hashing, trees, graphs, recursion and dynamic programming — plus CS fundamentals in OS, DBMS, networks and OOP. India online tests additionally report quantitative sections covering probability, statistics, ratios and permutations. We have no HackerRank simulator and are not going to point you at a game instead.

Step 5

India campus candidates: prepare a group discussion and an unbranded test

Goldman's India student page names a written/online test and/or a group discussion, and names no vendor for the test. Practice general timed numerical and logical reasoning rather than any branded battery, and rehearse a group discussion specifically — making a point early, building on others, and summarizing, which is a different skill from interviewing. Do not assume the HireVue video interview on this route.

Step 6

Apply early, because review is rolling

Goldman publishes no deadline for Americas or EMEA Summer Analyst and reviews on a rolling basis. Applying in the first weeks of the window is materially better than applying at the notional end of it, and there is no deadline to wait for. Expect long gaps between stages and a status update mid-season rather than continuous contact.

Step 7

Sit the live recording unaided

Press reported in June 2025 that Goldman's EMEA campus recruitment team told applicants to one program that external sources including ChatGPT are prohibited during the interview process. Whether that is firm-wide is not confirmed, but reading from a screen is visible in a recording regardless, and it flattens delivery. Prepare with whatever tools you like; record alone.

Step 8

Set up real conditions

Quiet room, laptop or desktop, notifications off, stable connection, neutral background, camera at eye level. Test your microphone and camera through HireVue's own system check before the window rather than during it, and leave time inside the invitation deadline in case something fails.

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Goldman Sachs assessment FAQ

Does Goldman Sachs use pymetrics games?

No — and there is no evidence it ever did. Prep sites and AI answers often list Goldman on pymetrics client rosters, but none of them cites an invitation, a candidate report, a vendor case study or an official page, and the most-cited of those pages contradicts itself in a single article: it claims the pymetrics deployment and then says candidate reports show Goldman screening by HireVue video interview instead. Goldman's own six-step student process contains no games stage at all.

What assessment does Goldman Sachs actually send?

A roughly 30-minute one-way recorded video interview on HireVue — Goldman names the platform itself, writing "If selected following your HireVue interview". Engineering applicants additionally take a HackerRank coding assessment. That is the entire assessment stack on the published campus path; everything after it is interviews.

Does Goldman Sachs use HireVue games?

No. The HireVue product evidenced at Goldman is the one-way recorded video interview, not HireVue's game-based assessments. Goldman's process page describes a video interview and nothing game-shaped, and HireVue's own account of the relationship — which dates to 2016 — describes video interviewing only.

How long is the Goldman Sachs HireVue interview, and how many questions?

Goldman publishes one number: approximately 30 minutes. It does not publish a question count, per-question preparation or recording times, or a retake policy. Secondary sources commonly report roughly four to six questions with a short prep window, but the range quoted across sources runs wider than that and the main candidate forums were unreachable during this research. Treat those figures as reported, and assume a single take unless your invitation says otherwise.

Does Goldman Sachs use SHL or numerical reasoning tests?

No SHL-branded or reasoning-test stage is confirmed on any Goldman route, and its published campus process has no aptitude stage. Prep sites that assert an SHL battery — some with percentile cutoffs — cite no source, and one labels its own cutoffs as estimates from unverified self-reports, so we publish no cutoff number for Goldman. The single official mention of a test anywhere is on Goldman's India student page, which says "Complete written/online test and/or participate in group discussions" and names no vendor.

Is the process different in India?

Yes, materially. Goldman's India "Process for Students" page describes campus pre-placement presentations, application through placement cells or the GS site, then a written/online test and/or a group discussion, then final interviews — and it does not name HireVue anywhere. India campus candidates should not assume the recorded video interview. India engineering candidates applying outside the placement-cell route report a proctored HackerRank test followed by several technical rounds, a hiring-manager round and an HR round.

How many interviews are in a Goldman Superday?

Goldman says "typically, we conduct between two and five interviews for campus hires, depending on the division" — two to five, not the "three to five" that prep sites repeat. Candidate accounts describe them as roughly 30 minutes each, back to back, with a mix of analysts, associates and vice presidents, though Goldman does not publish that detail itself.

When do Goldman Sachs applications close?

Goldman publishes no deadline for the Americas or EMEA Summer Analyst programs. It reviews on a rolling basis — "we encourage you to apply as soon as you are ready" — so applying early genuinely matters and there is no cutoff to wait for. India's 2027 Summer Analyst applications open July 1st. Specific opening dates circulating on secondary sites are unverified; check the individual opportunity on Goldman's application page.

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