I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Citi in Oct 2014
Interview
It took about 2 weeks. 4 rounds of interviews, HR and 3 technical interviews. About 1 hour for each round of interview, people are nice. After each interview, notice of next one was sent by email immediately, HR arranged a time and give you a phone number you should call at the time arranged.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No hard questions, they asked me about models they are dealing with. I'm not familiar with the work they are doing.
medium difficulty, asked regular quant questions, math, computer science and all that, regular quant questions, math, computer science and all that, not that difficult, rejected by them in the end
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Question 1
regular quant questions, math, computer science and all that
Medium. Memorize the green book and be fast at mental math and be articulate. Be able to answer simple probability questions and stats stuff. they like people who can speak English and are coherent when talking through ideas
I applied online. I interviewed at Citi (New York, NY)
Interview
It was a first round with the hiring manager who mostly asked behavioral questions. He described the role and what they do. Overall the questions he asked were trivial like bond market trading hours. I didn’t know about the sessions after the regular trading session.
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Question 1
General questions about trace data and bond markets
Quantitative Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Citi with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 59% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quantitative Analyst roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 109 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Citi overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Citi as a Quantitative Analyst according to 109 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 28%
Phone interview: 24%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Background check: 6%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 1%
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