Citadel Software Engineer interview experience

In my case, the session was structured so that the first half hour was mostly introductions and walking through my background, and then the second half focused on coding. I remember feeling like the early time was about alignment—who I was, what I’d done—before they turned it into a hands-on test.

Once coding started, the task itself was an object-oriented style problem. I had to implement a single-producer multiple-consumer ring buffer, mapped to the classic LeetCode 641 concept. The implementation felt quick once I got the shape of what was expected, and I finished without major