Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Jun 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My recruiter experience led into a pretty standard Citadel sequence.

After the initial contact, about a week later I had my first technical touchpoint, and from there the interviews matched a pattern: there was a stock buy/sell style question that showed up, and then the rest of the questions leaned into more role-specific front-end topics depending on what team I was being considered for. The overall difficulty felt manageable, and the questions didn’t feel like they were trying to trick me so much as test fundamentals for my track.

When I moved into the onsite, it was done virtually, and the flow was pretty smooth. I answered everything with no major

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