Citadel·Software Engineer

Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

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Hong KongPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter screen where they asked about my background and pushed on why I ended up laid off at my previous company.

They also made the next step sound like it would lean on C++, and then I moved into the technical portion.

After that, I had a coding-focused round where I got asked live, LeetCode-style questions with an engineer. The pacing felt pretty intense at moments, and the questions blended coding with discussion of my past projects. For one round, there was also a chunk of time near the end specifically reserved for me to ask questions back, and I remember how that closed out the interview.

Overall, it felt like a pretty standard recruiter-to-technical flow with a few different interviewers, but I

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