I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Citi (London, England) in Feb 2020
Interview
Applied in October for an off-cycle internship, heard back from the company in February next year.
Interview consisted in 2 Zoom calls with technical questions. Mostly brainteasers and pseudo-coding (no Coderpad). Interview process once started was fairly swift, around 1.5 months total.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Assume you have a game between players A and B, they toss a coin and the first player to get heads wins. What is the probability that player A wins?
medium difficulty, asked regular quant questions, math, computer science and all that, regular quant questions, math, computer science and all that, not that difficult, rejected by them in the end
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
regular quant questions, math, computer science and all that
Medium. Memorize the green book and be fast at mental math and be articulate. Be able to answer simple probability questions and stats stuff. they like people who can speak English and are coherent when talking through ideas
I applied online. I interviewed at Citi (New York, NY)
Interview
It was a first round with the hiring manager who mostly asked behavioral questions. He described the role and what they do. Overall the questions he asked were trivial like bond market trading hours. I didn’t know about the sessions after the regular trading session.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
General questions about trace data and bond markets