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Data Engineer Interview Experience - United States

August 28, 2021
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I've given around 8 interviews in the last month and this was the worst experience I've had. I can tell that the interviewers were not at all prepared for the interview and were struggling to find questions to test my skills.

They did not even have any technical questions prepared beforehand and googled the questions in the middle of the interview to ask me. They also did not initiate any whiteboard / coding environment where they could ask me to write code. I literally had to verbally speak the code out to them. For one question, the recruiter literally asked me to make up my own dataset and write the answer in a text editor on my computer and then share the screen.

One of the recruiters would not even let me speak more than one sentence before interrupting and changing the direction of my thoughts ( I understand that they want to get the answers that they are looking for but there's a way to do it. I've actually taken 53 interviews at Amazon so I know it). They wanted me to turn on my video but they themselves did not even offer to turn their videos on even as a courtesy to make sure the candidate is feeling comfortable.

The position said Data Engineer but the job description on the website and what the recruiters told me was more of a Business Analyst or BIE.

Questions

I have one question about dense rank.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 15 interview experiences for the Citigroup Data Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

40%
Pass Rate

Citigroup's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%
Neutral33%
Negative33%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Citigroup's Data Engineer interview process in United States.