Junior Trader
Status
Student / Prospective Monkey at
Group/Division/Type
Prop Trading
City
Chicago
Interviewed
October 2022
Overall experience
Difficulty
General Interview Information
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Interview Details
What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
Round 1: OA with arithmetic and sequences. Only attempted around 80% with an accuracy of 95%, still passed to the second round
Round 2: Online Personality Quiz. Around ~150 questions about your personality where you have to choose from Strongly disagree to strongly agree. Not sure what they're looking for here but I've heard that they tend to go for INTJ types.
Round 3: Phone Interview with a Junior Trader. Standard probability and expectation questions and some brainteasers from the green book (A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews by Xinfeng Zhou). Also tested my arithmetic again. Asked about 6 questions and how confident I was in my answer on each. At the end, I was told to state the first arithmetic question asked.
Round 4: Final Interview where they elaborated some gambling dice games similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_I1MjckaU, and at the end was a brief market-making game where I had to make a market on the temperature of Chicago
Round 2: Online Personality Quiz. Around ~150 questions about your personality where you have to choose from Strongly disagree to strongly agree. Not sure what they're looking for here but I've heard that they tend to go for INTJ types.
Round 3: Phone Interview with a Junior Trader. Standard probability and expectation questions and some brainteasers from the green book (A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews by Xinfeng Zhou). Also tested my arithmetic again. Asked about 6 questions and how confident I was in my answer on each. At the end, I was told to state the first arithmetic question asked.
Round 4: Final Interview where they elaborated some gambling dice games similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_I1MjckaU, and at the end was a brief market-making game where I had to make a market on the temperature of Chicago
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