Citi·Software Engineer

Citi Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

Irving, TXPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter-screen style intro, I got a Karat-based first round that felt like a pretty focused, medium-difficulty technical assessment.

The structure was very specific: two coding problems with a 30-minute block, then a shorter object-oriented portion that covered a set of OOP questions, followed by a handful of system design scenarios.

The whole thing mostly tested whether I could translate tagged concepts from common question sets into clean solutions. I felt reasonably prepared because my thinking was organized around typical Java-style problem solving patterns, and the time windows forced me to move quickly without over-explaining. By the end, I had a clear sense of how they wanted the work presented, even if I didn’t

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