Questions d'entretien chez Citi

You first get an email that you been identified as a candidate, they then send you an email with different subgroups of the company where you can apply. You select one and email that to them. Then in a few days you get an email that you have been selected for an interview. Virtual interview with two people on Zoom. Mix of both technical and behavioral questions. The two interviewers will be present at the same time.

Got an email from HR saying they will give me a phone interview, and ask for my time availability. Then no matter how many times you replied (even after using another email and also asking my internal friend to communicate), still got totally no response. I mean, when you invited someone for something and then disappeared with no words left no matter how anxious your candidate is, that's at least not quite respectful.

Citi keeps outsourced executives to interact with candidates. Mostly, they do not have any information of Job Description. Also, whatever JD they keeps on job portal are just copy paste from similar kind of positions published in past and not exactly what position demands. I have attended interviews for couple of positions and even reached till last rounds of few positions. But, after last round executive updated about negative feedback when contacted them after tones of unsuccessful tries. I would like to share two incidents here, 1) After clearing first round of interview by VP and SVP level, 2nd round interview was scheduled which was last round as per executive. At scheduled time, neither interviewer join the call nor executive had updated any change in schedule. When I called executives, he mentioned that it was holiday...this was ridiculous. Eventually, meeting rescheduled. when I joined the zoom call, I found there was another discussion going on within lots of Citi employees. I immediately logged out. I tried again after 5 mins and found that discussion was still not completed. Lastly, in 3rd attempt I found interviewer joined the call. After some introductory phase, interviewer asked me about who took earlier interviews of mine? I updated names of them. After that he did not ask any question which required to calibrate my capability and within 10-12 mins in total he concluded the discussion. I approached to executive about feedback and he updated 'negative'. 2) After few days I got call from another executive for another VP level position. That executive was not aware of JobID/job description/Hiring Manager. But executive had scheduled the interview. Interview started as per schedule through zoom call and one lady joined from Citi. During initial 1-2 sentences, I could realize that interviewer was not fit for the job. She asked me to write silly java code. Till the time I open Eclipse , she asked to write one SQL query. When I asked her, should I write java code first or SQL ? she replied "you can write SQL along with java code". This has shattered my trust on Citi's recruitment process. I have few friends in Citi. When I shared this experience with them, one of friend who was knowing that lady told me interviewer was not from development background (lady was from testing background) and her capability was also questionable. So, a non-capable person was trying to evaluate on technologies of almost 20 years’ experienced person that too in hard core technologies. The height of stupidity is , that lady was asking to write silly java code to such candidate. There were few more information I got from my friends. In Citi to promote any employee, first they create one position. And, just to show off they conducts few rounds of interview of few applicants. Finally, they make successful to whom this position was created. So, If you think that you have performed great in all the interviews though you were rejected. Don’t be demotivated, you were interviewed just not to select.

Was asked to provide availability for a phone interview. I provided within a few hours. Got no response that day or the day after. I sent an email to follow-up and received no response from the recruiter. Then hours later received an email saying, "We are in the preliminary screening process of your application and will reach out shortly should you be selected for an interview." Then 1 minute after receiving that email received an email saying, "We want to let you know that we unfortunately will not be moving forward with your application for this particular role." Such a waste of time. However I will look at this as dodging a bullet, because I would never want to work for a business that operates in this fashion.

Met with one interviewer for about an hour and a half. The questions were read out of a large book as the interviewer jotted down your answers in front of you. Was very intimidating.

I got several Calls about Why do you want, Have you use the tools we have listed on the JB before. Any lead role experience? That seems to be the pre-Interview. So, for the main interview -I was interviewed by 5 persons. I also did the 2nd phase but it was just 1 person. everything lasted for 1 month.

First round is a behavioral interview Second round is two behavioral interviews and a case study! Second round is all back to back, so it takes about 2 hours (with the case study).

There were 2 rounds. First was technical round and second was HR round. In first round, questions on OOPS were asked. Also, because my resume mentioned github, some basic questions related to git and github were asked.

Went on the interview with two interviewers. It was full one hour interview. Some easy questions and some hard questions. A few follow ups. Focus on past experience and core technical challenges

Group interview which testing your analysis skill and reports your insight based on the provided material. Then you have 3 mins to present your idea. And 1 mins for the Q n A session.

Met Citi at a school event and I stayed in touch. I reached out a few months later and the recruiter asked for a phone call. We chatted and he explained the program and what they’re looking for. I thought it over and decided to apply. The interview was straight forward and very pleasant.