First Karat Interview over online in video conferencing.
Technical interview with Team of engineers from citi banks who asked questions from Java, SQL and Microservieses. None of the question is specific to the job description they have posted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Core Java concepts, binary tree, string and SQL indexing.
The job description mentions Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Spring, Cloud and microservices, but none of questions are relevant to the job description.
I applied online. The process took 7 months. I interviewed at Citi (Varsovia, Mazovia) in Jun 2024
Interview
Phone screen with a recruiter, then an hour long meeting with the hiring manager and another hour technical interview with a team member. People seemed fairly ok.
They came back to me after 6 months of having the technical interview, no apologies, no explanation, saying that the senior position I was interviewing for has been closed, but since I got positive feedback (first time I learned about it) from both interviews, they would like me to interview for the same position but one level below. I decided not to "continue" ;)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How was auth handled in the product you worked on previously?
I applied online. I interviewed at Citi (Londres, Inglaterra) in Sep 2025
Interview
It was a relatively difficult interview, but not bad. It was a great experience overall. The interview was a bit weird, where I was supposed to ask questions too, and hence I was not prepared that well. I answered all the questions correctly, but fumbled when the interviewer asked me to ask him some questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
After explaining the job role in very much detail (over 40 minutes of explanation), he asked me to ask some questions