Technical Assessments: In some cases, companies may administer technical assessments or tests to evaluate your quantitative and analytical skills. These assessments may involve solving trading scenarios, analyzing market data, or demonstrating your ability to make quick decisions based on market conditions. The format and content of these assessments can vary widely.
Trainee Trader Interview Questions
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Typical passage-based questions, pattern recognition and mental calculation. Coding question - interpolation, tree traversing. There was one more which can't recall
process a list of inputs in some way
oral calculus not expected at the end. And timed
No unexpected questions overall. Though it really takes some brain to achieve their criteria.
- Assessments: Coding (3 questions/48 hrs), Aptitude (1 hr), Psychometric (1/2 hr) - Phone call with HR (standard questions + 2 simple arithmetic problems to test quick thinking) - 2 hr individual analysis task followed by a group task with another candidate, under the guidance of a junior trader. Involved coding up a backtesting structure to determine PnL of a strategy. - Dev interview: simple questions on maps/trees - Quant interview: questions on probability/combinatorics/estimation and a potential market making game - Final interview: with head of trading and head HR
Hackerrank: mercury levels est., house pricing, max path sum Phone screen: Couple of straightforward maths q's + some easy behaviourals Quant interview: problem solving + maths. Don't need to answer all of them perfectly, as long as you're personable and can work towards the soln. Dev interview: paired programming - phone directory lookup. Same deal as quant interview. HR: standard behavioural q's with a focus on working in teams. Try to let a conversation flow from it.
how to dealing with missing values.
Fill in missing data. Answer a tree-base question
Some probability questions and brain teasers.
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