Which system does Goldman Sachs use?
Goldman Sachs routes professional applicants from goldmansachs.com to higher.gs.com, a Goldman-owned application portal (gs.com is Goldman's own second domain, not a third-party vendor). No public evidence identifies a specific underlying ATS vendor for that portal, so we're not naming one. Separately, and more concretely: Goldman Sachs confirms on its own site that HireVue is its "approved interview platform."
Verification: both the goldmansachs.com/careers page and its Apply page route professional applicants to higher.gs.com, confirmed as a live, Goldman-branded portal. Separately, Goldman Sachs's own recruiting-scams alert page states: "[We] conduct interviews via video chat rooms and will only utilize our approved interview platform, HireVue, or a GS account on Zoom" — direct, on-page confirmation of HireVue, published as anti-fraud guidance rather than general marketing copy, which is worth knowing about the context even though the fact itself is solid.
How the application actually works
Goldman Sachs's main careers hub splits applicants into two paths: students head to a dedicated programs-and-internships page, while professionals use an "Open Roles" link that leads to higher.gs.com. For experienced-professional hiring, Goldman's own process documentation (published on a regional careers page) lays out the steps plainly: view open roles and job descriptions, apply to one or multiple roles, upload your most updated resume, and — for suitable profiles — move into interviews. Certain roles include "complete online assessment" as a documented step before interviews; Goldman's own page doesn't name a specific assessment vendor for this general professional-hiring track.
For campus and internship applicants, Goldman states you'll hear back at defined checkpoints: a confirmation when your application is received, a status update partway through the season, and a final update at the end of the season — useful to know if you're wondering whether silence means rejection or just Goldman's normal timeline.
The video interview and HireVue, confirmed directly
Goldman's own student-recruiting page states candidates who are selected to interview will complete "a video interview, which will take approximately 30 minutes to complete," describing it elsewhere as "a 30-minute video meeting." Separately, Goldman's own recruiting-scams alert page — published to help candidates identify fraudulent recruiters — confirms the platform by name: Goldman will "only utilize our approved interview platform, HireVue, or a GS account on Zoom." Read together, these two Goldman-published pages confirm both the format (a roughly 30-minute video interview) and the specific platform (HireVue) without you needing to rely on any third-party claim.
Engineering applicants specifically are told to expect one more step: "Engineering applicants will be asked to take a HackerRank assessment," per Goldman's own student-recruiting page — a named, verifiable detail rather than a guess at what technical screening might involve.
Final-round interviews — and why "Superday" isn't Goldman's own word for it
Goldman's own page describes the last stage as "a series of final round interviews," stating: "Typically, we conduct between two and five interviews for campus hires, depending on the division." That's a specific, sourced range you can plan around. The term "Superday" — extremely common across investment-banking recruiting forums and prep sites — does not appear anywhere on the Goldman Sachs pages we could access. It's real industry shorthand, widely used to describe exactly this kind of concentrated final-interview day across banks generally, but it's not Goldman's own vocabulary, so we're not presenting it as an official Goldman term.
For experienced-professional (non-campus) roles, Goldman's process page describes interviews with "respective division(s)" focused on "technical and functional ability," one role at a time — a narrower, single-track process compared to the multi-division exploration Goldman documents for students, who are told: "Because the same skills may translate to multiple divisions, we encourage you to learn about all of the opportunities at Goldman Sachs before you make a decision."
Resume advice, and a caution about AI use in HireVue rounds
Goldman-branded resume guidance (published for graduate applicants) gives specific, checkable advice: keep a graduate resume to one page, use bullet points over long paragraphs rather than dense text blocks, list education in reverse chronological order, list volunteer work alongside paid experience if it demonstrates transferable skills, and — very plainly — "spell check" and have someone else read it over before you submit. This guidance sits on a legacy recruiting-vendor domain rather than goldmansachs.com itself, so treat it as employer-published-but-older material rather than Goldman's current primary resume page; verify it's still current before relying on it heavily.
One practical caution worth flagging, reported by eFinancialCareers rather than by Goldman itself: Goldman's campus recruiting team has reportedly reminded EMEA candidates about "HireVue best practices" and specifically discouraged using ChatGPT to prepare answers, citing the format's tight timing — reportedly around 30 seconds of prep and 120 seconds to answer per question — as the reason AI-generated answers don't hold up under that constraint. We're attributing this clearly to eFinancialCareers' reporting rather than to a Goldman-published policy, since we could not independently verify it on a Goldman-owned page.
Preparing your application: the checklist
Every item follows from the documented process above — nothing here is folklore.
- Apply through Goldman's own portal — students via the programs-and-internships page, professionals via higher.gs.com — rather than a third-party mirror.
- Prepare for a roughly 30-minute HireVue video interview as your first live-format stage; Goldman itself names HireVue as its approved interview platform.
- If you're an engineering applicant, expect a HackerRank assessment specifically — Goldman's own student-recruiting page names it directly.
- Expect two to five final-round interviews for campus hires, per Goldman's own stated range — don't assume a fixed number.
- Keep a graduate resume to one page, favor bullet points over paragraphs, and proofread carefully — Goldman-branded resume guidance emphasizes exactly these basics.
- Don't lean on AI tools to script HireVue answers — reported guidance to EMEA candidates specifically warns against it, citing the format's short prep and answer windows.
- Don't call it a "Superday" in front of a Goldman recruiter expecting it to match their own vocabulary — Goldman's own pages describe this stage as "final round interviews," not Superday.