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      Quantitative Researcher Interview

      Oct 31, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Chicago, IL
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Citadel (Chicago, IL) in Mar 2017

      Interview

      HR reached me through email and scheduled phone interview with one member in machine learning group. First round of phone interview is about some linear regression knowledge and an algorithm problem. I did pretty well and they move forward to next phone interview quickly. I did well in second time too. But fail in the onsite round. Onsite has five meetings in the Chicago HQ. Some interviewer is friendly but the team leader is so serious that I felt too nervous to be smart in answering the questions.

      Interview questions [6]

      Question 1

      What's the difference of regress y on x and regress x on y?
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      given a series of real numbers, what's the optimal point in real line that minimize the distance between all these numbers? follow up: what's the best algorithm to calculate the median of a sequence of numbers? follow up2: design a algorithm able to update the median of sequence as there are new numbers coming in.
      2 Answers

      Question 3

      Algorithm: given an array of numbers: 1,5,3,2,4,2,3,1,2,3,2,4. Return another array with duplicate numbers in consecutive positions and in order of their first appearance, in the example the result should be: 1,1,5,3,3,3,2,2,2,2,4,4
      1 Answer

      Question 4

      given an array, find out three numbers such that their product is maximum.
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      what's your innovative contribution to the research in your cv?
      Answer question

      Question 6

      some covariance matrix estimation machine learning questions
      Answer question
      11

      Other Quantitative Researcher Interview Reviews for Citadel

      Quantitative Researcher Interview

      Mar 19, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Citadel

      Interview

      - Questions on Linear Algebra and Coding - Discussion of a problem at the intersection of optimization and classical machine learning - No behavioural questions or anything about my personality or work experience, the interview was purely technical

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      - Explain how to compute a product of two very large matrices in a computationally efficient way, using the structure of the problem and the matrices
      Answer question

      Quantitative Researcher Interview

      Dec 30, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Citadel

      Interview

      Start with my own self-introduction and the interviewer's self-introduction first for five minutes, then a couple of technical questions for like thirty minutes, and in the end, questions for the interviewers about the company.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The range for pairwise correlations.
      Answer question

      Quantitative Researcher Interview

      Dec 29, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Citadel

      Interview

      I received the interview a few weeks after applying online. During the interview i was asked by the interviewer about my past experience and also some other related technical questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I was asked to go through my resume.
      Answer question

      Citadel interviews FAQs

      • Quantitative Researcher applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Quantitative Researcher roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 111 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Citadel overall takes an average of 20 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Citadel as a Quantitative Researcher according to 111 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  30%

        One on one interview:  19%

        Presentation:  16%

        Skills test:  13%

        Background check:  6%

        IQ intelligence test:  5%

        Personality test:  4%

        Drug test:  3%

        Group panel interview:  2%

        Other:  2%

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