The first step involves an online "programming aptitude test". These questions are quite silly to be honest and one can only wonder what they indicate about your quantitative/programming skills. I did not make it past this stage. I would recommend thinking about shape type questions and obviously the standard logic questions also appeared.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If I rotate this shape 180 degrees clockwise, flip it, then rotate 90 degree counterclockwise, what does the shape look like?
OA, HR interview then technical interviews with senior traders. Finally a superday where you work through different problems at stations. Difficult but a fun and challenging interview. Pretty quick process start to finish
First some assessments, then HR, then technical and then super day. Didn’t make it through super day unfortunately. It also highly depends on the persons you get during the super day.
Online assessment then an invite for a recorded interview. The online assessment was reasonably straightforward and the recorded interview was not too hard either. But I did not receive the invite for further steps.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic algorithm questions, can be done in any language.
Quantitative Trader applicants have rated the interview process at IMC Trading with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quantitative Trader roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 28 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at IMC Trading overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at IMC Trading as a Quantitative Trader according to 28 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 22%
Personality test: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Presentation: 11%
Skills test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 2%
Background check: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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