Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

MediumCandidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a 1-hour phone interview where the questions felt unlike the typical FAANG-style technical flow.

It wasn’t just coding; it started with more discussion-heavy prompts, including going deep into a favorite project and giving concrete examples from past work that matched the interviewer’s follow-ups. From there, the conversation pulled toward modern C++—the kinds of details and design thoughts you’d expect when someone wants to understand how you actually think in that language.

The middle of the call turned into a design discussion about job schedulers and how they’re used in real systems. It felt more like an architecture and systems conversation than a narrow coding test, and I had to

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