I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Citi (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2017
Interview
phone interview for the first round. Just simple questions about java,sql. It took about 25mins. 4 days later, it came the second interview. 3 interviewers, all about technical questions. And 2 days later, the VP interview, asked me more java questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
java collection,thread(Runnable, Executors), gc, sql, Exception, alg etc.
I applied online. I interviewed at Citi in May 2026
Interview
Applied online. Was asked to schedule an assesment in a 2 day period. Prepare for 1 day and gave the karat interview on the next. Karat interview was good. I cleared all testcases for 3 coding questions and answered 2/4 mcq questions in 50 mins. I was positive I did well but next day got a rejection email. Dont understand what more they expect?!! I guess a PERFECT candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Debugging errors and fixing code snippet. Python MCQ questions and o/p prediction.
Design and scenario based questions, not straight from theory or books. Keep your concepts clear in programming and skills for developer roles. I applied for senior role, more questions they were expecting were in distributed architecture, complex KARAT coding etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design questions, related to event processing for communication between different microservices.
The initial interview round is conducted by Karat, a third-party technical screening company. You will participate in a live, person-to-person online coding assessment to evaluate your core engineering competencies. All in all, it was good.
