Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

I described a recent threat I’d worked on using accessible, plain language, but the interviewer reacted in a way that suggested the explanation didn’t register the way it should have. They followed up with direct questions that felt like I was being tested on a very narrow interpretation rather than the underlying reasoning.

When I explained how I would detect a specific kind of threat, I referred to event types logged by endpoint security tools. The interviewer pushed back by questioning whether that event type even existed, and I ended up recapping multiple leading tools to show the