Goldman Sachs does not look for coders who have studied philosophy. For the simple reason that Goldman Sachs is not a person, but a firm. It has 16000 engineers

Goldman Sachs does not look for coders who have studied philosophy. For the simple reason that Goldman Sachs is not a person, but a firm. It has 16000 engineers, which means many, many different groups. The "strats" are about 25% of that, and they are split into numerous groups too. Groups are made of people, and individual people have their own interviewing style. There might be a few people who are looking for coders who have studied philosophy, but it's not a general trend. Goldman actually does have some interviewing guidelines, you need to pass some internal training to even be allowed to interview candidates. And none of these guidelines mentions anything about philosophy. They are the typical HR interviewing guidelines that you can find anywhere: technical competence, problem solving, business acumen, ethical conduct, communication, initiative, collaboration, goes the extra mile, etc, etc.