I work for a competitor of Tower. The interviewer's main goal was to fish for proprietary information about my current employer. Most questions were of the form "how does [current employer] model XYZ" or "how much money does [current employer] make in X product" or "what signals does your X system use? what else have you tried?"
General math stats and coding questions, some about trading
tech + finance + resume
All of the questions were surface level. Nothing too hard.
How proficient are you with Excel?
Do you have any questions for me?
Given an array of stock prices, at any given time, you can: 1. Buy one stock. 2. Sell all your shares. 3. Do nothing. Write an algorithm to maximize profit.
It is better to not tell the questions as they can reuse them. One was an easy algorithm problem. The second one was a game problem asking what would be your strategy.
What could go wrong with PCA in alpha trading
Stochastic processes, Brain teasers, ...
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