Citibank Risk Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - More emphasis on good intro..and technical round

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep hardworking and Lear about subject

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident, you'll be selected. Attitude in banking matters a lot!

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't mess up technical side and you should be good

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: People having CGPA above 8.2 were shortlisted for the test.
Tips: Maintain your CGPA around 8.5.

Round: Test
Experience: Simple questions of quant and verbal. Logical Reasoning questions were quite good and confusing. 102 Psychometric questions were asked.
Tips: Practice a lot for logical reasoning questions like what would be the next figure? Don't give different answers for the same questions asked after sometime in psychometric test. Try to be yourself.
Duration: 120 minutes
Total Questions: 75

Round: Guesstimate Interview
Experience: It was a very easy question for those who practicse guesstimate questions. They just check How structured is your approach?How comfortable are you with numbers? Are you able to make quick checks on the efficiency of different methods?Can you do back of the mind calculations and validate the magnitude of numbers?
Tips: Practise guesstimates questions from -----

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I have to explain my project related to Neural network for prediciton of FIFA World Cup 2014 matches results. I had done my internship at Larsen and Toubro so they asked about forecasting of traffic volume and how to decide number of lanes on a National Highway. Asked about the practical applications of B.Tech and M.Tech Project. Difference between C and C++ programming language. Asked about my schedule of a day in IIT KGP. I had done 3 internships related to Core Engineering so they asked why do you want to join a finance company.
Tips: I was selected for Risk Analytics profile. I had done 3 courses related to Probability and Statistics, they helped a lot in getting this job.

General Tips: Go through your Resume properly. Explain the projects and Internships you had done in a effective manner.
Skills: Logical Reasoning, Verbal Ability, Quantitative Aptitude, Knowledge Of Projects Undertaken, Risk Management, Guesstimate Skills, Ability To Analyse
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: I liked the job description given by the company for the profile of Risk Analytics.
Funny Moments: They asked why you are not going in core engineering firm, so I told them that most of the work done by the engineers there is to follow standard codes and even a diploma guy can also learn these in just 2 months. He told that even I am doing repititive work from last 2 months, you can not have exciting works everyday. I was not prepared for this type of company.