I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Citi (Toronto, ON) in Nov 2021
Interview
The interview was with 4 other senior devs who were hiding behind cameras. Out of the 4 one lady was super rude. When I was giving an answer to the best of my knowledge, may not be correct. She interrupted the other interviewer by saying "wait wait! I want to ask!" And then questioned me further, giggling in the background. She definitely wanted to make some fun out of me. It is so unprofessional! Whatever be the case I wasn't cheating and giving the best answers I could. I could have turned the tables around and asked her some questions off the internet hiding behind the screen. Looks like they wanted to humiliate me for something about me or my resume not sure what the goal was. I have interviewed several other companies, but never like this one. Please train your employees on etiquette and manners. All brains has no value.
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 (Londres, Inglaterra) 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.
