They want to see you think under pressure. Technical assessment was five timed sections on CS fundamentals. Interview day had behavioral questions and a quick case exercise with a messy dataset
Questions Asked
1.“What about Citi first caught your attention?”
2.“What's the time complexity of common operations on a hash map”
Software Developer
New York, NY
Winter 2025No Offer
Drexel University · Computer Science
2nd year · 2.5-2.8 GPA · 0 past internships
Hard Interview
Multiple roundsCase studyVirtualStressful
Senior person and a junior person, only 20 minutes but they asked some surprisingly hard questions about market risk for a co-op interview. They wanted to know about Canadian current events too so be ready for that.
Questions Asked
1.“Describe a time you had to make a security trade-off in a product decision”
2.“Find the largest element in a binary search tree”
3.“Explain what a generator function is in Python and give a use case”
Investment Banking Analyst
New York, NY
Summer 2025No Offer
University of Toronto · Rotman Commerce
4th year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 2 past internships
Hard Interview
Case studyMultiple roundsBehavioralTechnical
Q&A destroyed me. Assessment centre had light technical on EV and EBITDA, then a case study
Questions Asked
1.“Tell me about a deal or transaction in the news you've been following.”
2.“How does a leveraged buyout create value for a PE firm?”
Risk Analyst
New York, NY
Fall 2025Accepted
University of Calgary · Economics
3rd year · 3.3-3.6 GPA · 3 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalBehavioralMultiple roundsVirtual
Basel III came up so study that. Behavioral first, then credit risk concepts. Got a scenario question on a deteriorating client
Questions Asked
1.“Explain model risk and how it's managed”
2.“Tell me about a time you had to make a recommendation without all the data you wanted”
Technology Analyst
New York, NY
Winter 2025No Offer
Penn State University · Computer Science
1st year · 2.9-3.2 GPA · 0 past internships
Average Interview
TechnicalBehavioralMultiple roundsVirtual
Binary tree section moved way too fast. Recruiter reached out first, then the technical test split into 5 timed sections covering questions on stacks queues trees sorting and OOP. Live interview after with an analyst and a VP, mostly behavioral, why Citi and why tech in banking. Didn't make it past that round
Questions Asked
1.“Describe a time you had to debug a problem that only appeared in production not locally”