Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

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United StatesPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first step was a recruiter call where things moved quickly into the technical assessment.

I remember spending time discussing my background, then I got a problem to solve in a coding/testing environment.

The tone of that round was nerve-wracking for me because I wasn’t sure how I’d sound under pressure, and I ended up stumbling through parts of my answers. The interviewer helped me navigate the technical piece, but even with that support I only got past part of what they were evaluating. I didn’t make it through the next stage—one version of the story in my head is that I “got one right, not the next,” and I heard back that I wasn’t selected within about a week.

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