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The reported pipeline starts with an algorithm-heavy online test and a recorded video interview; the SQL arrives in the live technical rounds — removing duplicates, recovering the latest value, aggregating across two or three tables.
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Goldman Sachs does not publish the format. Each row is what candidates and prep guides have described publicly, with its source; where sources disagree, the row says so. Formats change — treat every specific as reported, not official.
| Overall pipeline | An online assessment, a recorded video interview, a live coding round, then a final "Superday".[1] |
|---|---|
| The online assessment | Reported as mostly data-structures and algorithms with multiple choice; SQL is not mentioned in the reports we could read.[2] |
| Where SQL appears | One 2024 analyst report describes two hour-long technical rounds with SQL: removing duplicate records from a table with no unique key, and salary questions across employees, salary history and departments.[3] |
| Reported difficulty | Easy-to-medium SQL inside a process whose early rounds lean on algorithms.[3][1] |
Sources: Exponent — Goldman Sachs interview process guide (published 2024); LinkJob — Goldman Sachs HackerRank assessment notes (24 Sep 2025); GeeksforGeeks — Goldman Sachs Analyst interview experience (experienced hire) (2024); DataLemur — Goldman Sachs SQL interview questions (14 Mar 2025). Accessed 13 Sep 2026.
Reported most often, in order
Difficulty: Reported as easy-to-medium SQL; the harder filter is the algorithm test before it. The data is client transactions by asset type, trades by client segment, and salary or position history with effective dates.
Our Goldman Sachs practice set, by skill
The 16 SQL Quest challenges tagged Goldman Sachs, resolved onto the nine Skillmap skills. A challenge exercises several skills, so shares do not sum to 100%. This is the composition of the practice set on this page, not a measurement of Goldman Sachs’s interview.
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Every question in the Goldman Sachs set, one page each with the schema and a hint: Average Salary by Department · Top 5 Earners · A Subquery That Returns One Value · Monthly Spend Per Account · Below Department Average · Find Duplicate Emails · GROUP BY + HAVING · Most Recent Order Per Customer (ROW_NUMBER) · Delete Duplicate Records, Keep the Original · Each Merchant's Share of Its Category · Running Total of Daily Card Spend · Running Total Revenue · Top Earner Per Department · Deduplicate Orders with ROW_NUMBER · Second Highest Salary per Department · Top 3 Banks Per State by Assets.
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