Citi Software Engineer interview experience

The format was split into a couple of parts: first I did a quick introduction and then moved into Java questions for roughly 10–15 minutes. That was followed by debugging and fixing test cases for about 40 minutes, where the expectation was that I could read what was failing and correct it while staying organized.

Overall it felt like a live, technical problem-solving environment rather than a theoretical chat. I had to explain my thinking while I worked through errors, and that live element made it stressful but focused. I left that round feeling like I had a clear sense of what they cared