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My Interview experience with Citibank
In this blog, I want to share my experience with the first-round interview at Citibank. I will divide my experience into 10 sections for better understanding.
1. How It All Began
A Citibank recruiter approached me through LinkedIn. The process begins with a conversation about multiple opportunities with Citibank across different locations and roles based on experience in Data Science and Gen AI. Then she explained the interview process to me and asked me to share my resume so that she could align it with their requirements. Once my resume got shortlisted, she scheduled my first technical round with two panellists from the technical team.
2. The Interview Day
The interview began on a friendly note — panelists introduced themselves, explained what their team does, and outlined the expectations for the candidate. After that, they asked me to introduce myself and walk them through one of the projects that I was currently working on.
3. From Project to Technical Deep Dive
That’s when the real technical discussion began — and it turned into a wide-ranging test of fundamentals, practical ML, SQL, and statistics.
While explaining my project, I mentioned using dimensionality reduction techniques such as PCA…
