Citadel Securities Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Neutral

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

I went through an online assessment with two questions, one easy and one medium in LeetCode difficulty.

I passed all the test cases and made sure the time and space complexity were optimal, so the experience felt like I was doing exactly what they were asking for.

Even so, I got rejected. I’d had a similar outcome with internships before, which made me wonder whether the decision wasn’t only about solving the problems—something about the application context seemed to matter. I also attributed part of my disappointment to not having a referral.

The interview portion itself didn’t feel unfair, but the fact that a correct, optimized submission still led to a rejection made the whole process feel

Create a free Dataford account to unlock the full round-by-round breakdown, the questions asked and the outcome.

Read the full report Read the full report

Preparing for this interview?

Citadel Securities Software Engineer interview guideThe full process, round by round, with the question bank Practice Software Engineer interview questionsReal questions from this role across companies All Citadel Securities interview guidesEvery role we cover at this company