Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jump Trading (Londra, Inghilterra) nel mese di nov 2016
Colloquio
CV online, then a face-to-face interview on campus with a trader. Followed up a few weeks later with onsite interviews, including with a developer, a quantitative researcher, and two further researchers later on.
Everyone very nice and friendly throughout, seemed like a nice place to work and the offices were really cool - great views!
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Pseudocode to calculate standard deviation. How would you optimize it? Where might it go wrong?
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jump Trading (Londra, Inghilterra)
Colloquio
HR screening, casual chat, followed by technical phone interview and another HR chat. Then Onsite interview consisting of four rounds, 3 technical and one technical and behavioral. Mostly on statistics, probability, coding and data analysis.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jump Trading (Londra, Inghilterra) nel mese di ott 2025
Colloquio
I was contacted by the firms internal HR directly.
HR were nice and made the process seamless.
After my first conversation I had a 3 hour interview with 2 quants and a trader (all separate, approx 1hr each).
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
1 hr of python coding ability being assessed, data structures and how would you solve a problem.
1 hr discussing microstructure and answering trading specific questions (assessing knowledge of HFT strategies, backtesting)
1 hr of conditional probability and stats questions
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Jump Trading (Chicago, IL) nel mese di ott 2025
Colloquio
First round was probability/brainteasers, next set was 5 interviews in a row with a mix of stats/probability/data science and leetcode plus one behavioral round. Interviews were around 30 mins long each.
