I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Citi (Toronto, ON) in Nov 2021
Interview
The interview was with 4 other senior devs who were hiding behind cameras. Out of the 4 one lady was super rude. When I was giving an answer to the best of my knowledge, may not be correct. She interrupted the other interviewer by saying "wait wait! I want to ask!" And then questioned me further, giggling in the background. She definitely wanted to make some fun out of me. It is so unprofessional! Whatever be the case I wasn't cheating and giving the best answers I could. I could have turned the tables around and asked her some questions off the internet hiding behind the screen. Looks like they wanted to humiliate me for something about me or my resume not sure what the goal was. I have interviewed several other companies, but never like this one. Please train your employees on etiquette and manners. All brains has no value.
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.
