Citadel / Citadel Securities Online Assessment

Citadel Securities' OA is auto-graded and differs sharply by track - a large rotating HackerRank coding pool for SWE, recruiter-sourced probability and stats screens for quant, a pandas/R datathon for data science, and a non-coding equity aptitude test.

Software Engineering — SWE / SDE / NG intern

SWE / SDE / NG internHackerRank70 min2 of ~40 shown2017-10 -> 2026-01

Two coding problems drawn from a large rotating pool shared across the SWE, SDE and new-grad intern screens (often a resume-screen filter).

Quant Research / Quant Trading — QR / QT

QR / QTphone screen / live + QT OA~15-question OA shown2021-12 -> 2025-07

A roughly 15-question fill-in-the-blank quant-trader OA of probability and statistics, alongside recruiter-sourced QR phone-screen brain-teasers rather than the SWE HackerRank pool.

Data Science — Datathon

DatathonHackerRank60 min~18-question MCQ shown2019 -> 2024

A multiple-choice data-science round mixing pandas/R analysis with statistics, probability and ML theory; the 2024 version tests both Python and R rather than letting you pick one.

Citadel / Citadel Securities OA — FAQ

What is the Citadel / Citadel Securities online assessment?

Citadel Securities' OA is auto-graded and differs sharply by track - a large rotating HackerRank coding pool for SWE, recruiter-sourced probability and stats screens for quant, a pandas/R datathon for data science, and a non-coding equity aptitude test.

What is the format of the Citadel / Citadel Securities OA?

It runs as 3 tracks (SWE / SDE / NG intern, QR / QT, Datathon). Software Engineering, Quant Research / Quant Trading, Data Science — each timed, auto-graded where applicable.

How do I practice for the Citadel / Citadel Securities online assessment?

Work the sample questions above (each with a full worked solution), then take the interactive Citadel / Citadel Securities OA practice on QuantVault. For the full interview, see the Citadel / Citadel Securities interview-questions set.