Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Citadel with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Internship roles take an average of 41 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Citadel overall takes an average of 15 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Citadel as a Internship according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 67%
Phone interview: 33%
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Hackerrank followed by Phone interview followed by 3 leetcode problems in a final round. No behavioral questions at all, the coding questions were pretty standard. Pretty simple process. More words
you don't know what division you will get into before you start the interview rounds. I was with fixed income and was asked very advanced questions about fixed income and central banking in the first round. Then in the second round was with 3 other traders individually, first math questions, second again FI quant questions and last one was very casual.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
calculate the sharpe ratio of a 60/40 coin toss with +1$ / -1$ earning/loss respectively.
Coding round, Hacker rank questions. Definitely helps to prepare on Leetcode for a few days before the interview, do review all data structures and aim to write efficient code that's easy to read.
I applied online. I interviewed at Citadel (Paris)
Interview
Pretty simple questions about my CV and personal statement, followed by a math tes on statistics and probability and ended with a firendly discussion regarding my plans for the future in terms of career, life and general goals.