Citadel Securities Software Engineer interview experience

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London, EnglandPosted Nov 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process began with a phone screen on CoderPad.

After that, I was invited to an onsite interview that was split into five sessions. Before the interviews, I expected something more chaotic, but the structure felt organized: multiple back-to-back conversations, with coding woven in as part of the evaluation.

The coding exercise itself ended up being pretty straightforward. What stood out most during the onsite rounds was that the interviews varied from session to session, but a lot of them used a laptop they provided, which made a big difference compared with writing code on a whiteboard. Having an actual IDE meant I could run and test as

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