Citadel Securities Quantitative Analyst interview experience

No offer

Hard

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CanadaPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first interview was a single 45-minute session split into two parts: a statistical problem and a coding problem.

The coding segment looked like a typical leetcode-style task, while the stats portion felt like something you’d see in a quant interview prep book.

The timing itself mattered—everything felt compressed into a short period, and the stats piece was the kind of question that was straightforward in setup but still not easy in execution. I didn’t have the full freedom to “stall and think forever,” and the math intensity was obvious.

I didn’t end up with an offer, and overall I took away that the interview was designed to test both classic coding problem solving and the ability to handle

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