I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Citi (Toronto, ON) in Mar 2021
Interview
Email screening by HR. Finished OA.
Then had a one-hour 1:1 tech interview with 1st hire manager and one-hour 1:1 tech interview with a senior dev. Finally had a 1:1 tech interview with an another hire manager...
Actually their hire process is messed. I was even provided an interview for a position that I never applied for... Of course, I did not accept the invitation.
The reason that I had 2 interviews with different hire managers is they thought I was ok but not very fit for the first team then I was introduced to another one.
Finally got the offer but it was not the position that I applied and they did a demotion because they thought I am not skilled enough to get senior level...
Anyways, I already got a very very competitive offer from another company as a senior dev.. LOL good bye citi.
Design and scenario based questions, not straight from theory or books. Keep your concepts clear in programming and skills for developer roles. I applied for senior role, more questions they were expecting were in distributed architecture, complex KARAT coding etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design questions, related to event processing for communication between different microservices.
The initial interview round is conducted by Karat, a third-party technical screening company. You will participate in a live, person-to-person online coding assessment to evaluate your core engineering competencies. All in all, it was good.
I applied online. I interviewed at Citi (London, England) in Feb 2026
Interview
Easy first round they use screen tool to ask you write some code. Second round is scheduled then got cancelled saying they will not proceed further? Waste of time in my opinion, also the interview person has nothing to do with the role you apply for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Figure out a bug in the code.
Then write a small method.
