1p3a Experience · Sep 2025

Citadel Fulltime SDE Tech Phone Screen Interview Experience

SWE Phone Screen Hard
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Interview Experience

Recruiter reach-out, 90 minutes, 3 questions, all coding. The following content requires a score higher than 150. You can already view it. The first question was Li Kou, exactly the same as Liu Siqi.

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Recruiter reach-out, 90 minutes, 3 questions, all coding. The following content requires a score higher than 150. You can already view it. The first question was Li Kou, exactly the same as Liu Siqi. I don't quite remember the second question, it seemed to be array processing. The third question was a graph. Given two input arrays, you need to first convert them into a graph, and then return whether each node is a special node; special nodes are defined as the two endpoints of the longest edge in the graph. Overall not difficult. Please give me points!! I'm saving up 100 points to read more posts 😭 Thank you everyone.

About This Question

This is a candidate experience report from a citadel interview for a swe role during the phone screen round reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Graph, Array, Arrays, Graph .

Difficulty rating: Hard