Associate applicants have rated the interview process at Knight Capital with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 55.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Associate roles take an average of 5 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Knight Capital overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Knight Capital as a Associate according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Drug test: 14%
Personality test: 14%
Skills test: 14%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Knight Capital in Aug 2012
Interview
1:1 phone interview, on-site 1:1 meetings with 4 others, 1:1 with the md, 1:1 with the CTO and 1:1 with the head of operations
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
everything seemed straightforward... very basic fundamental questions which you either know or you don't... got asked the differences between a set and a list... wondered if that was a trick question
First I had a phone interview with the hiring manager and then I went in for an on-site with 5 other developers who asked me a variety of Java and DB questions, from data structures to basic OO design to design patterns. Also some simple java queries. Nothing too difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was one developer that went over several pages of printed Java code with me, each page a different method. I was asked questions about each page, like whether it would compile, if there were logic errors, concurrency problems etc.