Citadel interview notes, page 8 of 14

“Easier than the version I'd seen before, which honestly made me second-guess myself for a second.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My approach was to run a DFS first, collect all the leaves into an array, then loop through and wire up the next pointers.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started by nailing down what 'too many' actually means, which felt like the right move.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Spent a minute clarifying requirements before touching the keyboard, which I think saved me.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just sort each window and slice off the top K, which the interviewer immediately flagged as too slow.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This felt like a warmup but it definitely wasn't.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight to a hash map and felt good about it for about 30 seconds.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one took me a minute to even remember where to start.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Spent the first couple minutes just making sure I understood the position accumulation mechanic correctly, which I think was the right call because it's easy to misread.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Seemed straightforward at first and I almost over-engineered it with a class.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Citadel, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.