Citadel·Quantitative Analyst

Citadel Quantitative Analyst interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a first technical call where the interviewer basically had discretion to go in a direction he wanted.

He ended up asking me to design a computation graph, which immediately put me into systems thinking rather than just coding. We also talked through different design trade-offs as I worked through the structure.

The difficulty wasn’t just in the topic—it was in the open-ended nature of the problem. I felt like any misstep in how I reasoned about trade-offs would show up quickly, so I spent the hour thinking out loud and trying to stay consistent. I didn’t make it further after that round.

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