Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

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SingaporePosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was an online coding assessment where I had an hour to work through LeetCode-style problems.

After completing it, I moved into onsite-style interviews that mixed coding with discussion about my background. The coding portion stayed very much in the LeetCode lane, and the conversations around my resume and past experience came alongside the technical evaluation.

At the first technical interview, I began with a resume-related conversation and then went straight into a coding task that was tied to designing a data structure. I remember being surprised because I’d expected the usual LeetCode question format, but instead I had to talk through the structure and why I was choosing it as I

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