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:
Skills test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Personality test: 25%
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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
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Citadel (New York, NY) in Mar 2024
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Headhunter, then onsite. (midlevel position). First round with co head of the group, which is non standard, very high level, background chat.Then a more technical interview, realyl dive deep into your resume, so know your projects and the decisison that you made well
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Question 1
DUring a create redeem process, what stage does the market maker take the most amount of risk?
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Citadel (London, England) in Nov 2024
Interview
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