Citadel Securities Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

London, EnglandPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a relatively clean setup: one technical interview and one behavior interview.

The technical part wasn’t too intimidating, and the interviewer was nice and helpful, which made it easier to stay focused.

For the coding, I was given dynamic programming questions—one involving a tree structure and the other an array problem. Both of them ended up requiring 2D dynamic programming, and I worked through them during the session. Even though the experience was positive and fair, I didn’t get an offer.

The behavior interview was the longer, more specific part and felt like it required very targeted answers. Overall, I felt like I did what was asked in the moment, but the final

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