Citadel

SWE Intern Interview Experience - New York, New York

August 8, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I applied and then received an OA. About two weeks later, I received an invitation to interview for the first round. The interview invitation stated that I didn't need to complete the OA if I hadn't done it yet.

Questions

Behavioral

Longest increasing subsequence

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Citadel SWE Intern role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Citadel's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive60%

Neutral40%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Citadel's SWE Intern interview process in New York, New York.

Citadel Interview Questions

Longest Non-decreasing Subarray From Two Arrays

Medium

You're given two arrays. Construct the longest possible non-decreasing subarray by picking elements from either array at each index.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Minimum Knight Moves

Medium

Find the minimum number of moves a knight needs to reach a target position on an infinite chessboard, starting from (0, 0).

Graphs

Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum

Hard

Find the maximum sum of any path in a binary tree, where a path can start and end at any node. The path must contain at least one node.

TreesRecursion