Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 36% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 147 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 Software Engineer according to 147 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Citadel (New York, NY) in Aug 2020
Interview
I was referred to Citadel via a third-party recruiter. I interviewed for the NXT program (recruitment program for engineers with 1-6 work experience).
There were two rounds of interviews, both virtual due to COVID-19. I had the first round in late June and the second round in early August.
The first round was a 1h Zoom interview conducted by a junior engineer. It consisted of a background screen plus a live coding problem. The interviewer patient and asking thoughtful follow-up probing questions from my resume.
The second round was a 5h Zoom interview session, with 30mins break in between for lunch. I had back-to-back 1-1 interviews with engineers and engineering managers of various levels of seniority. They did ask some tough technical questions. Behavioral questions were OK.
Overall I was very impressed with the people I interviewed with ("no duds" as one of the interviewers put it). Citadel has a high quality bar. I didn't get the offer but if you did, you can be sure to be working alongside very talented people.
Really awful interview experience, the people didn't explain anything that was happening and it was all really corporate. I wouldn't apply again and from what I've heard from friends the work culture is very stressful there anyway.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Citadel
Interview
I was reached out by a recruiter to interview for a contractor position on a trading team. The question they asked was strange and nothing to do with the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Convert a string to an int without using Java library.
Online assessment with 3 coding questions on bfs and stacks etc.
First round on a simple coding question with some basic CS questions on top of it and also asked many CV questions and motivations
Did not proceed after this round