Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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Chicago, ILPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My online assessment was the first real wall.

I got two tasks in HackerRank, and while the first one felt manageable, the second one was the real challenge—it needed more deep technical knowledge about the underlying problem, not just pattern matching.

In the other parts of my journey, the process still carried that same expectation that they wanted solutions that were close to optimal. One of my assessments felt like it was mostly LeetCode-style binary search over a solution space, where using the “right” reasoning mattered because test cases would fail if the approach wasn’t tight.

Across the process, I didn’t get an offer. The

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