Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

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Miami, FLPosted Jun 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey felt pretty structured and “industry standard,” and it moved through an OA, a phone round, and then a final loop that was split into multiple parts.

The phone interview and each part of the final round blended behavioral questions with coding, so I was always switching between explaining my background and solving problems.

In the technical parts, I dealt with classic LeetCode-style questions and got pulled into follow-ups. One coding attempt involved a two-pointer approach for identifying two values that add up to a target, and I missed it—not because the concept was unclear, but because of my communication and presentation under pressure. I could feel myself getting more nervous than the difficulty justified.

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