Quantitative Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quantitative Developer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 6 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 Developer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 25%
Phone interview: 17%
Personality test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
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First round with the outside recruiter, and discuss the fit. Second round with a quant developer and ask a leetcode questions. Hiring timeline is extremely long and seems they just keep you around.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code type of question with time and space complexity.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Citadel (Houston, TX) in Sep 2023
Interview
10 min introduction involving resume run-through,
followed up by some short basic technical questions,
then 45 min coding problem (2 related parts, easy/medium difficulty, BFS algorithm)
interviewer was kind and helped
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on websocket vs REST tradeoffs, questions on database design and optimization, analyzing time complexity of algorithms...
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Citadel (Boston, MA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Got referred by someone and had an asynchronous coding assessment first. Got invited for the first round of interview within a couple of weeks followed by a final 3 hour-long interview