Offer on the way from Citadel (hedge fund, Surveyor) and was wondering about a few things that I can't find elsewhere online. (Note: no TC given yet, just told that they want to make an offer) 3 YOE, NYC 1. What is wlb like for data engineers at Citadel? Does it differ by fund (Surveyor vs. Ashler vs. GE)? 2. What does the tech stack look like? Is it cutting-edge or legacy/old? 3. What is a reasonable comp package? 4. What is career/learning trajectory like? edit: current TC is 155k #citadel #compensation #dataengineer
1, 2, 4 are team dependent. The firm doesn't set guidelines for how your tech stack should look. They let your team do whatever you need
What's your current TC? What's the offer TC?
What topics and questions were covered during the interviews.
Of my 4 interviews, 3 were typical programming (some basic finance math and string parsing) on the easier side and 1 was a resume deep dive.
What’s your background OP? Why did they ask finance math for data engineering? I will DM you if you don’t mind
1. I know the data engineering teams that are aligned to GE/SC generally are more busy in earnings season and less outside of that. Probably around 50hrs a week. 2. Most of that team is all Python, a lot on cloud. 3. Not sure but likely aligned with other software teams. 4. I think this team put together a podcast about data engineering and touch on this. You should be able to google for it.
What was the tech round of interviews like (OA, phone, onsite)? People say LC hard but is it true?
Not hard at all. My experience ranged from easy to medium for the roles I was interviewing for.
Could you tell me a little bit about the in-person rounds? Mostly whiteboarding or any DE specific questions?
What was the offer TC?
OP, did you get an offer? Care to share numbers?
offer breakdown?
You should have found this out during the interview process. And you should definitely find this out from reliable sources before accepting the offer.
I've gotten certain information throughout the interview process but it's precisely because I'm not fully trusting it that I'm asking again here.
I can assure you people here are brutally honest for better or for worse