Citadel Securities·Quantitative Researcher

Citadel Securities Quantitative Researcher interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Chicago, ILPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first phone screen was with a quant researcher over Zoom.

It was intended for a Quantitative Researcher intern summer program, and the interaction was pretty focused: beyond a short conversation about my background, they asked just one coding question through codepad.

The rest of the round wasn’t packed with multiple coding components or a long chain of math. Instead, it felt like they wanted to see how I handled that single implementation task while I spoke through what I was doing.

I didn’t end up getting the offer, but the experience was memorable because it was narrow and technical rather than broad and multi-topic. It felt like one checkpoint

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