Citadel Securities Quantitative Trader interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Hong KongPosted Sep 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter-style conversation that quickly turned into a technical discussion: I introduced myself, then we moved into questions about my background and what I’d been working on, including which investing area I was most interested in.

The conversation kept circling back to recent big news and how I’d think about the market implications.

After that, I went into a coding/probability-focused interview where the format included a “make a market” style game. Alongside that, I was asked probability questions that pushed beyond plug-and-chug, and there was also a live-coding component where I wrote code on a platform and talked through my thinking. I ended up doing well on the coding portion—enough that I felt the main risk was more about whether my quantitative reasoning landed the way they wanted.

I didn’t receive an offer,

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