Citi·Software Engineer

Citi Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an online coding assessment first, where I created a REST API as part of an API test.

After that, there was an OA that mixed coding practice with SQL and aptitude, and then I hit two separate technical interviews. One of those covered DSA and Java directly, and the other focused on the Spring Boot framework.

By the time I got to the end, there was an HR round to close things out. The experience felt fairly methodical—coding, then platform/framework depth, then a human screen—so it didn’t feel random even though the questions varied by stage. I also remember that live coding showed up early in my first round, and the later technical discussions kept pulling from the same

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