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Technology Analyst

New York, NY· Summer 2026

Accepted

University of Florida · Computer Science

5th year · 3.7+ GPA · 4+ past internships

Average Interview

TechnicalCase studyMultiple roundsVirtual

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. 1.“What about Citi first caught your attention?”
  2. 2.“What's the time complexity of common operations on a hash map”

Software Developer

New York, NY· Winter 2025

No 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. 1.“Describe a time you had to make a security trade-off in a product decision”
  2. 2.“Find the largest element in a binary search tree”
  3. 3.“Explain what a generator function is in Python and give a use case”

Investment Banking Analyst

New York, NY· Summer 2025

No 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. 1.“Tell me about a deal or transaction in the news you've been following.”
  2. 2.“How does a leveraged buyout create value for a PE firm?”

Risk Analyst

New York, NY· Fall 2025

Accepted

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. 1.“Explain model risk and how it's managed”
  2. 2.“Tell me about a time you had to make a recommendation without all the data you wanted”

Technology Analyst

New York, NY· Winter 2025

No 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. 1.“Describe a time you had to debug a problem that only appeared in production not locally”
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