Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey was unusually long and multi-stage.

I started with an OA on HackerRank-style tasks, then moved into a technical interview, followed by a superday made up of three technical rounds. After that, there was even a project-matching step that focused on operating systems and networking concepts, with some leetcode content depending on what project I got matched to.

The OA itself was brutally hard, but I remember being able to get partial credit that actually carried me forward: I scored relatively low on the first and second problems but still passed overall. The first technical round was a medium LeetCode-style coding interview.

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