Citadel Securities Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

SydneyPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an online assessment with two problems—one medium and one hard—I ran into a technical interview that didn’t go the way I hoped.

I remember failing after the first technical round, and what made it feel extra awkward was the way the next discussion flowed into a design-style prompt about a real-world scenario like a supermarket. The interviewer was genuinely nice, but I still didn’t manage to recover momentum.

On another attempt with a similar structure, I started with a batch of technical questions that included follow-ups based directly on my previous answers. The coding part felt compressed: I was only left about 20 minutes for a LeetCode hard coding question, and it came off as pretty difficult. Communication also

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