Citadel Investment Financial Technology Associate Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Two 30 minute rounds on campus and three 1 hour sessions on-site if selected. It starts off with brain teasers and some general conversations. Can get pretty technical (C++ knowledge mostly) in the middle and they may discuss some things in the field of finance and will really appreciate if you show interest in Finance. Most important things going in should be to be comfortable coding in C++ and demonstrating an interest in finance which you should have if you want to work here

Interview Details – The interviewers asked a lot of fundamental computer science questions that I could not answer...

Interview Details – Initial interviews were behavioral and technical based and I had a following superday in Chicago. The interviews were challenging and were generally questions that tested your ability to reason and understand rather than recite rote memorization.

Work culture seemed very work hard/play hard, tons of very bright people.

Interview Details – Got the on-campus interview through the university career service. Two back to back interviews of 30 minutes. One is behavioral and one is technical. Feeling not good about the behavioral one but the guy in the technical one is nice.
The behavioral interviewer seems somehow cold. Questions include: your strong point and weak point? how do you improve your weak point? how much do you know about the company? introduce your achievements to me? Whether you can program? If yes in what language?

Interview Details – Result is managed by HR and is very obscure how they choose interns....not good.Don't be surprised if you get rejected despite a good interview, had a bitter experience. Work environment is too serious and people seem to work way more than in regular software firms.

Interview Details – Citadel recruited for the FTAP program at my University. The first round interview consisted of a 30 minute behavioural and a 30 minute technical with a HR representative and then a FTAP alumni. The technical interview was fairly easy - mostly talked about your background in various fields and probed deeply in topics that the interviewer was interested in.

I was invited to a final round in Chicago. That was three technical interviews of 45 minutes each with a 15 minute behavioural with each interviewer. Similar format as the first round.

Interview Details – I was contacted by Citadel after a career fair. First I was invited to an info session which was very helpful.
An invitation from Citadel was then sent to me to sign up for an interview. The night before the interview I was invited to meet with the people who were going to interview us and got to ask them different questions about the position as well as hearing stories about a day in their life. The next day I had two interviews back to back: one was a technical interview by a current employ in this position and the other was a personality interview by a HR.

Interview Details – 30 min behavorial interview
30 min technical interview