Candidates applying for Quant Researcher roles take an average of 21 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 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Citadel as a Quant Researcher according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
Personality test: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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Just had one phone interview with them. The interview was quite technical in nature. Questions asked were not very tough, but covers a lot of breadth and are rather open-ended. I would be familiar with statistics and time series analysis. I felt under-prepared.
phone screen, then OA, then interview, asked the classic question "what's your biggest strength and weakness?", coding interview is 2 hard leetcode Dynamic programming. very difficult, no hint from interviewer
Normal interview process, not too lengthy, hr was very nice and replied to all my emails. The questions were a bit hard, and it needs some preparation before going into the interview.
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Citadel (London, England) in Nov 2024
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HR interviews then met different people and was asked to do a case study involving data analysis using Python.
In the end I never really received a feedback and I am not sure if they even looked at the case study