Citadel·Quantitative Researcher

Citadel Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I interviewed for a quantitative research role and got pulled in by a senior team member.

The meeting was supposed to be 45 minutes, but it ran 1 hour and 15 minutes, which immediately made it feel more serious and less like a quick screen. We talked through my resume and past strategies, and the discussion stayed technical.

There were live coding exercises alongside the resume-driven questions, and the pacing felt like they were probing both how I think and how I implement under pressure. I kept expecting it to wrap up, but the extra time suggested they were still working through key areas I’d mentioned.

By the end, I felt like I’d been fairly tested across a mix of explanation

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