From the recruiter: "I got word from Citadel that it was close. You had some positive feedback but also some lower scores on behavioural questions and some front end design work. After deliberation, they decided it was just below their hiring bar." Behavioral questions are apparently weighed a lot more than I thought. It's weird that I passed Amazon's LPs but not Citadel's. Who the hell knows anymore. And front end design work...not really sure. I do remember one interviewer being super picky about writing clean components (my code was a bit dirty, but it got the job done). So I need to work on that. But I didn't think it was even that big of a deal. You need to be perfect to pass Citadel.
If you were being hired for a Senior role in which you were expected to lead/mentor/coach/guide the team, then you gotta be perfect because if you can’t set the standards, then your team is doomed. If it were a junior role, then such mistakes are overlooked.
Rule #1: dont believe the recruiter
Why? I think it's hard to make a generic statement like this one. My recruiter was a pretty cool guy and he followed up well. He gave great advice and even shared sample questions previous candidates he was working with in the past had gotten. I liked his style and approach. I would believe him.
Would you tell a girl/ guy that has a crush on you, that they’re ugly ? Or they’re really nice, but _______
Lot of it is luck too. Don't beat yourself up too much on the behavioral round.
Behaviorals are very important. Why is it weird that you passed Amazon but not citadel? Amazon I not that hard to get in. Anyway as someone said already a lot of it is just luck. There's a lot of good companies out there.
Well, from a questions POV, my Amazon interview was much harder. I wouldn't say any of Citadel's questions were challenging. But I will say that the senior engineers in Citadel seem very strong. Much stronger than Amazon's senior engineers I feel. Citadel's hiring bar is also clearly higher. It's not wise to compare like that, but you can compare the behavioral questions. Amazon's LP behavioral questions are much harder than Citadel's...it's nothing to be proud of. It's honestly bullshit in my opinion. But that's because I finished the Kool-aid a lot quicker than most people.
True, but if the objective is a complete solution, I still think Amazon's LC question "Given a list of words, find all pairs that make a palindrome" a lot more difficult than Citadel's "Make a React Component that makes an API call and returns values back....oh and btw reverse this string".
Same :( aced all rounds except one.However the interview was super aggressive and arrogant
Just avoid that circus
I actually got an offer from citadel then it got rescinded due to the leadership change in Citadel HRIT. A lot of it is luck, good luck on your next company. Just keep on studying and don’t give up
That's even worse, but it does happen.
I too recently received a rejection. Keep your head up. I believe in you :)
Hard luck OP. Better offers are waiting. Was this for a front end role? What was their tech stack and questions like?
Yea it was front end NXT program. It was all ReactJS. Honestly I felt I did well after the interview. I didn't think I did badly. I can't speak for behavioral questions (In fact I don't even remember being asked that many behavioral questions). I think the first interviewer asked me behavioral questions...what I could've improved is after the interview, they asked "Do you have any questions for me?" and I could've asked them better questions. I do see that maybe the first interview went not so smoothly. He was poking holes in my React Component because the component was re-rendering too many times when a state change happened. I couldn't fix the issue until I got hints. So maybe that's how I lost the points on front end design. But this was such an esoteric case. I never encountered this problem in my day to day work.
Interesting. Thank you for the detailed response, appreciate it :) Just curious - why was a state change causing multiple re-renders? 🤔 how did he/you realize that was happening?
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Move on, there are better companies on this planet. I got rejected by vmware, pure storage and later got offers from apple and Facebook. So prepare harder, get into a better company and then show 🖕🏼to citadel
You were lucky to get rejected by citadel!
@ishares why so?