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Updated Feb 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Trader at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in New York, NY (took 5 days)
We just spoke generally about myself and the interviewer. No technical questions
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Global Markets Intern at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Tokyo (Japan) (took 2 weeks)
As I am a student in America, but was interviewing for a Tokyo position, most of the interviews were over the phone. They were very simple "fit" interviews asking about my experiences at school and on teams.
I then visited reps at a job fair who worked in the Tokyo office. They took all of the candidates, both interns and full-time, out to a fancy dinner. I suppose the dinner was again to see how we interacted with each other and with the reps...again, "fit" stuff.
Last interview was a pretty formal interview with the same guys I had had dinner with the night before. There were no real technical questions. They formatted the interview in such a way that went along with my major at school. I am an economics/poli-sci major, so they asked me a lot of questions about what I thought of the Asian market. It was VERY wide-open stuff like, "What do you think of China's political system? How does it affect its economic system?"
All in all, I felt that a lot of the process was more of a fit issue.
In terms of advice: if you are applying to an overseas position, your interest in the job and interest in the region will be far more important than your technical skills. Even if you have a 4.0 from Harvard in finance or whatever, you won't get a position in Tokyo or Hong Kong if you have no real interest in working in that environment.
I speak Japanese and go to an okay school (UCBerkeley), but was not chosen. My assumption is that it simply came down to "fit" as that was the main focus of the process. On the other hand, it could very well have been that they weren't actually hiring interns this year because of the bad economy. Some firms are still interviewing people without any real positions being there.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales & Trading Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Jan 3, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2010 (took 3 weeks)
I got lucky with this one, as I was fresh out of college, and the economy was pretty rough at the time. I was contacted after applying for the position online. After the initial phone interview and the interview 1:1 with HR, I was interviewed by a panel of 6 managers, all in separate rooms, which was a little bit intimidating (and seemed a bit excessive, seeing that I was only applying for an analyst role). I was asked some questions that I believed were pretty silly, one of which was "How many nickels could you fit into a Boeing 747?" Some interviewers were friendly, but the majority had a holier-than-thou attitude.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Dec 20, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
I have given a test for Citi group, their package is 7.5lpa(CTC). The test has no coding questions but contains a lot of reasoning, verbal, aptitude. Please do some practise on the aptitude questions. Some of my friends told me that in the next rounds of interview they asked some data warehousing related stuff(SQL)
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The interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Assistant Vice President at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Dec 16, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 (took 4+ weeks)
Phone Interview. Face to face interview on premises with 3 managers. Acknowledgement form. Background release. Dishonesty questionnaire. Family business. Fingerprints. Letter of assurance. Drug consent form.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Citi ICG Operations Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Nov 19, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Tampa, FL (took 2 days)
This interview was pretty straight forward. I applied through my school's career website and was selected to for the 1st round interview. The questions were all behavioral with the exception of a few questions that had to do with my knowledge of the company. Most questions were related to leadership and roles in school and internships. Be prepared with examples that you are comfortable discussing.
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I chose to go with another major bank
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales & Trading Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in Milan (Italy) (took a day)
After a brief bank presentation they asked me the typical motivational questions (why citi, why sales and trading) and then they started asking some technical questions about derivatives (pricing). In particular the interview has benn focused on the hedging strategies. A particular focus has been made also on the options and on the CDS. The interview has been made in one day and I met three members of the team.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Sales & Trading Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Nov 8, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Tokyo (Japan) (took a day)
The interview was for a summer internship position. I had no finance background but they didn't mind that. What they wanted to know was why I was interested in finance, and how I had succeeded so far.
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Negotiation Details
If you have offers from other firms let them know, they will want you more.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Quant Researcher and Trader at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Nov 4, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took 4+ weeks)
The first round was a 30 minute 1:1 interview with a quant director at Citi. Be prepared for about two simple math questions and a bit more behavioral / fit questions. The final round has about 7 interviews in the course of a day, some mathematical, others entirely behavioral. The whole process is about 1 month.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Risk Analyst at Citigroup Global Markets
Posted Oct 10, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in New York, NY (took 3 days)
Famous camel/banana problem.
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Negotiation Details
Didn't try negotiating due to my lack of experience in the industry at the time.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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