I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Citi (Warren, NJ) in Feb 2018
Interview
Phone Interview first. It took around 40 mins. With behavior questions like why do you want to change current job. Why do you choose Citi? Then several technical questions on Java with memory layout of the heap/stack/garbage collector. When talked about I am using Java version 8, questions on stream/completablefuture/lambda comes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain the marker interface and default method in interface?
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.
