Citi Software Engineer interview experience

I was also asked questions about the company itself, and I didn’t have good answers there, which immediately made the tone feel more evaluative than conversational.

From there, the technical rounds leaned into live questioning and sometimes live coding or screen sharing. I had to answer JavaScript basics and go through project-related responsibilities and how deployment works, including what things like Babel and package management files meant. Other sessions shifted toward core CS and engineering skills—coding questions where an optimized solution mattered, puzzles, and Spring/Spring Boot