Citadel Investment Interview Questions & Reviews in Chicago, IL Area
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Updated Feb 13, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Recruiting Concierge at Citadel Investment
Posted Feb 13, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I met with 3 different people for my interview. A Recruiter, Recruiting Coordinator (who was in the position before), and the Recruiting Manager. I called in for an in person interview after applying to the job online through their website. The phone conversation I had with the Recruiting Coordinator who asked me to come in was quick and to the point. I first met with the Recruiter who was very nice and helpful in discribing career advancement opportunities, and was honest in telling me I could be in this position for a few years before being promoted. The Recruiting Coordinator was next who descriped the role in even more detail and mentioned i had done this same kind of work in my pervious internship. Then last was the Recruiting Manager who asked me what I thought the position was about and completely ignored my years worth of internship experience and asked what I learned in school about and HR and orgainzation. I was kind of insulted and then learned how the position was hourly and had no benefits! It was a waste of time and would recommend someone to ask all of these questions regarding pay and benefits up front before going in for a 6 hour interview process!
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Reason for Declining
Declined
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Quantitative Researcher at Citadel Investment
Posted Jan 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I was offered a phone interview soon after I sent my resume. The first round consisted of a few questions about my background, motivation to finance field, basic programme language problems (Matlab and C++) and one brain teaser. If you get through the first round, you will get two technical phone interviews and then on-site.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Summer Intern at Citadel Investment
Posted Aug 16, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
Got the interview opportunity from a campus recruitment. Did not get it, though.
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Accounting at Citadel Investment
Posted Jul 3, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I just had one phone interview and skills test from Human Resources set up from the recruiter. I was given a phone number, a name, and a time to call.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Quantitative Research Analyst at Citadel Investment
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 in Chicago, IL (took 2 days)
Be prepared to answer a large series of puzzles, math questions, and programming/algorithms questions, along with your past experiences or knowledge of the field. The interview consisted of several brain teasers, a practical programming question, an involved optimization problem, and several trading/research questions. The employees that questioned me were very bright and courteous, but demanding.
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Negotiation Details
Quick. The company provided a good compensation package and benefits, so it required little negotiation.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Front Office Developer at Citadel Investment
Posted Apr 27, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
The process goes really smooth. The interviewers are very nice.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Financial Technology Associate at Citadel Investment
Posted Mar 31, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 in Chicago, IL (took 2 weeks)
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.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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NOC Engineer at Citadel Investment
Posted Mar 29, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2009 in Chicago, IL (took 2 months)
As this was a few years ago details will be sketchy. I was contacted by phone by an in house recruiter. After doing an initial interview with the recruiter, I was asked to do a "Brain Bench" style skills assessment. About a week after the initial call I had another 2 phone interviews, 1 with the recruiter, and another with a member of the team. After the second phone interview I was contacted for a 1:1 interview with the members of the team that had the position and the managers of the different technology teams.
All in all the 1:1 interviews lasted about 4 hours and I was asked a range of questions about servers, networking, and scripting. after the interview I was offered the position within a few days.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Citadel Investment
Posted Mar 28, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 2 days)
Had a phone interview with manager. Was then brought in for interviews with HR and 2 other technical people. Was also was supposed to meet manager but he was a no show, was never told why and the manager made no attempt to contact me after interview which I felt was very rude. Also, was pretty obvious my skills did not match the opening, I don't have scripting skills and I don't state that on my resume either. Felt it was a complete waste of my time and only found out that I didn't get it after following up many weeks later.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Software Engineer at Citadel Investment
Posted Mar 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 1 week)
3 Technical Interviews. Basic CS concepts
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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