Step-by-Step Order to Solve Goldman Sachs LeetCode Questions
How this order is structured:
Phases: Designed to start with foundational concepts and build up in difficulty and topic
complexity.
Links included for each problem.
Approach: Start from fundamentals, reinforce core data structures/algorithms, introduce
common interview patterns, then tackle advanced and edge-case problems.
🟢 Phase 1: Core Basics & Foundation — “Warm Up”
Focus: Arrays, Strings, Hash Tables, Simple Math, and Frequency Questions.
Solve all these before moving forward.
Two Sum
First Unique Character in a String
Valid Parentheses
Reverse String
Power of Three
Roman to Integer
Valid Anagram
Pascal's Triangle
Contains Duplicate II
Missing Number
Merge Sorted Array
Climbing Stairs
Sqrt(x)
Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
Keep Multiplying Found Values by Two
Count Number of Pairs With Absolute Difference K
Determine if Two Events Have Conflict
🟡 Phase 2: Core LeetCode Patterns & Frequent GS Questions
Arrays, Sliding Window, Hashing, Medium-level Strings, Linked Lists
Valid Sudoku
Group Anagrams
Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
Maximum Subarray
Product of Array Except Self
Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array
Search in Rotated Sorted Array
Container With Most Water
Longest Palindromic Substring
String Compression
String to Integer (atoi)
Maximum Product Subarray
Jump Game
Find the Duplicate Number
Merge Intervals
Pascal's Triangle II
Next Greater Element I
Intersection of Two Linked Lists
Linked List Cycle
Merge Two Sorted Lists
Reorder List
🟠 Phase 3: Intermediate/Advanced Patterns — DP, Greedy, Search, Stacks, & Trees
Decode Ways
Longest Increasing Subsequence
Maximum Subarray
Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock II
House Robber
Unique Paths
Set Matrix Zeroes
Rotate Array
Rotate Image
Zigzag Conversion
Letter Combinations of a Phone Number
Permutations
Next Permutation
Add Two Numbers
Minimum Path Sum
Spiral Matrix
Find Peak Element
Find All Good Indices
Subarray Sum Equals K
Minimum Size Subarray Sum
Search a 2D Matrix
Word Search
Range Product Queries of Powers
Fraction Addition and Subtraction
🔵 Phase 4: Advanced & Mixed-Concept (Graph, Heap, Trie, Misc) + Hard GS Hits
Kth Largest Element in an Array
Pow(x, n)
LRU Cache
Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)
Count Number of Texts
Minimize the Maximum of Two Arrays
Find the Median from Data Stream
Sliding Window Maximum
Valid Arrangement of Pairs
The Skyline Problem
Maximum XOR of Two Numbers in an Array
Amount of Time for Binary Tree to Be Infected
N-Queens
Candy
Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock IV
Count Palindromic Subsequences
First Missing Positive
Fraction to Recurring Decimal
Trapping Rain Water
Median of Two Sorted Arrays
Number of Islands
Maximal Square
Decode String
Largest Number
Remove Duplicate Letters
Gas Station
Minimum Number of Arrows to Burst Balloons
Jump Game II
To Export as PDF:
1. Copy this roadmap and paste into a document editor (Word, Google Docs, Notion).
2. Use the "Export as PDF" or "Download as PDF" function from your editor.
If you need a printable, formatted document version, let me know your preferred layout or style
(e.g. Markdown table, bullet list) and I can generate the corresponding text specifically for
direct export to PDF!
⁂
