Citizens Software Engineer interview experience

It was one-sided and mostly behavioral, with a handful of prompts and a couple logic/math-style games to complete. I remember feeling like the questions were straightforward, but it was still tough to gauge how I was doing because the whole thing wasn’t live.

A short time after that, the process moved to a HackerRank coding challenge. That part felt like the real gate—more demanding than the behavioral screen—and it was what determined whether I got invited forward. Once I passed, I ended up with live conversations where the focus shifted toward how I worked and how easy I would be to learn