Most candidates prepare for a Goldman Sachs Asset Management interview the way they'd prepare for an investment banking interview, then get asked to pitch a stock and have nothing. Different seats, different tests.

Goldman Sachs took fewer than 1 percent of applicants into its 2025 intern class: over 360,000 applications for roughly 2,600 seats.

Every candidate walks into a Superday with a memorized DCF. Almost nobody walks in with three deals they can argue about.

Goldman Sachs received more than 360,000 applications for its 2025 intern class and took roughly 2,600, an acceptance rate of 0.7 percent. Those odds sound hopeless until you see the structure behind them: most of those applicants never prepared for the specific rounds in front of them.

The hedge fund industry manages a record $5.6 trillion. Citadel received 108,000 internship applications for a recent class and accepted about 0.4 percent. Millennium opened its first internship for college seniors in 2026. Balyasny built a dedicated intern program.