Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Dec 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Once the initial screening moved me forward, the first real step was a HackerRank-style coding assessment with the usual DSA flavor.

After that, I filled out an interests form, and then I had an interview with one of their software engineers.

That SWE chat wasn’t a pure “answer coding problems on the spot” session. It started with a lot of introduction-style context—talking through projects and experience—and it quickly moved into technical questioning where the interviewer expected me to be precise. I also saw how much they relied on foundational CS knowledge: one part of the conversation turned into an OS memory-management style set of questions with detailed code examples, alongside a separate coding task.

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