I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Citadel Securities in Oct 2018
Interview
Talked to a rep at school career fair.
Followed up, got the first round. A week later got the second round.
First round: Behavioral, market knowledge, past experience
Second round: correlation matrix, BSM model, Greeks, max dropdown
First is a phone call with recruiter, then phone screen with a trade with some resume questions and then technical questions. After that can be a second phone screen then onsite round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Expected number of times to roll a dice before getting 2 6's in a row
quite unorganised interview. had a face to face interview with 2people from the company. They asked a lot of questions to get some colour rather than really trying to hire someone.
Had a recruiter phone interview then two technicals followed by an onsite final superday, much more technical than other firms and more strict. Flew out to new york for the onsite.
Trader applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel Securities with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 53.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Trader roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 19 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Citadel Securities overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Citadel Securities as a Trader according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
Presentation: 16%
One on one interview: 16%
Personality test: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Background check: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 4%
Skills test: 4%
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