Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 36% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 147 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Citadel overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Citadel as a Software Engineer according to 147 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 18%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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Online assessment. It gives two questions and Time limit is 70 minutes. Two medium level questions. It wasn't too hard but some test cases may cause Time Limit Exceed. So you'd better come up with optimized solutions to pass certain test.
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It gives two questions and Time limit is 70 minutes.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Citadel
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I was reached out by a recruiter to interview for a contractor position on a trading team. The question they asked was strange and nothing to do with the position.
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Convert a string to an int without using Java library.
Online assessment with 3 coding questions on bfs and stacks etc.
First round on a simple coding question with some basic CS questions on top of it and also asked many CV questions and motivations
Did not proceed after this round
OA then phone interview, discussed about experience, coding rounds, and some open ended questions afterwards. The last 5 - 10 mins was for interviewee to ask questions back. Didn't pass this round :(