Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Citi with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 92 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 Software Engineer according to 92 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 23%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Drug test: 4%
Other: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Citi (New York, NY) in Jun 2022
Interview
i was asked two pointers, and other project related questions. Also, there is some question regarding sql and pandas python. Also, i was asked about object oriented programming field. system designing and what kind of language i use.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
two pointers one is slow pointer one is faster one
Attended a karat interview. Karat interview consisted of Java questions (10 mins), followed by a simple debugging (10 mins) and implementation (10 mins) question in a language of your choice.
I applied online. I interviewed at Citi (London, England) in Jul 2026
Interview
Interview was in Karat. First short introduction, followed by a couple of questions about .Net and network, need to answer with 1 sentence.
Then we moved onto coding questions. Given snippets of code, fix bugs and add new functionality.
Interviewer didn't show his face as usual. I've interviewed with Citi bank several times over the years and they never show their face even if its a panel of people.
They asked technical language definition questions. Only has vague answers about what the job is because he doesn't know. His only job is to grill you on whether you know what one java syntax does compared to another. Apparently they think that's the only thing that's important to working for Citi. Do you know how the inner workings of this keyword in java, spring, angular, or sql? Yes? Great. We have 30 more similar questions for you. If you pass this round, we will do this again for 3 more separate interviews where each round another faceless interviewer will ask you another list. After the interviews you learn nothing about the company and give you no reason to want to work there.