I’ve got contacted by a recruiter to start Citadel SDE interview process, I’m told there will be a phone interview round, then on-site full loop. Anyone interviewed with Citadel before? What questions do they ask? Do they have system design? Behavior questions? Are coding questions just leetcode?
Is this citadel the hedge fund, or citadel securities?
I got the offer, quit my job, and they revoked it. Fuck the CTO Umesh!
What the actual fuck?
Is this for real?
My phone screen was a DP problem about picking the best time to buy and sell a stock given a list of stock prices. Don’t jump from FB to Citadel unless you’re way underpaid and want to squeeze Citadel for the money.
I got that question too. It’s a DP easy that Facebook asks interns for Christ sakes!
I had phone screen + on-site. Really really really good offer, but the job was meh.
Is onsite interview hard? Is it coding only or also system design?
I was a quant at Citadel for many years. If you're in a front office role (quant, or low-latency HF swe), then Citadel is awesome. As a pure SWE, it's not a great place. Joining Citadel as an SWE from FB is a bad career move IMO. The problems you'll work on will be significantly less challenging than at FB. The caliber of your peers will be much worse. And your exit options will be limited if you decide to quit finance. You may get a short-term bump in TC, but you'll be worse-off in the long run.
Thx for the insights! I’m trying to get an offer and use it as competing offer for Google.
That makes sense, great strategy in that case. Just beware that G and FB may not match comp from finance. Neither of them matched my Citadel comp. Granted that's slightly different because it wasn't an offer - just current comp.
Moving from FB to citadel would be a big mistake
Why?
They have pretty bad lay-off culture
How many phone screens did you have?
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Depends on the role. I had easy front end questions
Can I pm you for the questions?
Can I DM any of you for your experience with Citadel interview