Citadel interview questions
Updated 28 May 2026Difficulty
Average
Experience
Mostly positive
How others got an interview
- 24%RecruiterRecruiter
- 15%Campus recruitingCampus recruiting
- 5%Recruitment agencyRecruitment agency
- 4%Employee referralEmployee referral
- 1%OtherOther
- 1%In personIn person
Interview search
1,242 interviews
Citadel interviews FAQs
- Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Citadel as 55.1% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.25 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Graduate Software Engineer and Associate Software Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Talent Acquisition Coordinator and Qunat Research roles were rated as the easiest.
- The hiring process at Citadel takes an average of 32 days when considering 138 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Software Developer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Software Engineer Intern roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 90 days).
- Common stages of the interview process at Citadel according to 138 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 35%
One on one interview: 23%
Skills test: 21%
Presentation: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 2%
Other: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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