I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Citadel
Interview
Had 2 oncampus interviews, did not get a call back. Was asked about personal projects, then a couple coding questions like:
-Write a function that finds if a number is prime or not
-Code the in order traversal of a tree
-What is the game logic if you were to create a chess game in Java
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the game logic if you were to create a chess game in Java
On Campus Interview, several probability questions, several C++ questions , several algorithm questions, in an hour. Lots of questions, need to move fast. You really need to know a lot about C++ and algorithm.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Citadel in Sep 2014
Interview
First had an on-campus interview, 2 rounds, 45min each. Asked about OOD, Fibonacci with DP.
Invited to Chicago for onsite, 4 rounds, 45min each.
Questions like 1.how does hashmap work, 2.how many ways are there to go from top left of chess board to bottom right. 3.How to sort 1 trillion bits of data. 4.operator= override in c++ 5. 50 white balls, 50 black balls, 2 jars. How to put balls into jars to maximize the probability of getting white ball when blindly get a ball from a random jar.
Financial Technology Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Financial Technology Associate roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Citadel overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Citadel as a Financial Technology Associate according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 86%
Skills test: 14%
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