Citadel·Quantitative Analyst

Citadel Quantitative Analyst interview experience

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My process started with a CV walkthrough where I talked through my past projects, the tech stack I’d used, and what I was looking for in terms of engineering versus research.

HR also asked about expectations and preferences, and that set the tone—very structured, very requirements-driven.

Then the interview cadence moved into coding and quant thinking. In one round I went through multiple LeetCode-style questions in three segments, each with several problems that ranged from medium up to hard. I struggled on one of the hardest questions, but I still advanced. After that, a phone stage stretched across about a week with five different interviewers. They drilled into specifics from my resume, asked coding questions centered on data structures, algorithms, and even

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