Citadel·Quantitative Researcher

Citadel Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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United StatesPosted Apr 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process moved quickly and felt unusually math-dense from the start.

I went through an interview that included both probability puzzles and algorithmic reasoning, and then I had a longer session that lasted around three hours with several researchers. That extended round leaned hard into discrete probability and, occasionally, basic statistics, with some algorithmic questions that bordered on the harder side.

Before the research-heavy portion, I’d also done an online assessment and a phone conversation that mixed behavioral and technical components. The behavioral part focused on my resume and projects, and then it shifted into more probability-style

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