I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Citi (Long Island City, NY) in Apr 2014
Interview
Recruiting for the Citi Cards Interview Program was competitive as most hires receive full time offers upon completion. 2 Phone Interviews followed by final rounds on site. 3 30-minute interviews of mainly behavioral questions with some technical. 2 of the 3 interviewers did not personalize the questions at all and read directly off the HR provided sheet. I've always found those questions to be so stale and hard to answer because of this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When dealing with clients and rewards programs, what's one way to make our e-mails stand out more?
Structured. It consist of 3 rounds in total. HR will host the interview. First round of Case Study, then Technical with the team leads of the team. After that, will be Q&A session. Lastly with the head of the department.
I had a behavioral with a current analyst, then a Superday with 3 members of the division. During the Superday, I was also assigned a case study to be conducted and presented live to the Superday interviewers.
Interview with HR and a current analyst (behavioral + CV). Another round where there was 2 interviews from people from the department and then a prresentation based on a document they present
Citi interviews FAQs
Summer 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 70% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Summer Analyst roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 203 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 Summer Analyst according to 203 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 20%
Group panel interview: 17%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 9%
Skills test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 1%
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