The first step was a standard 8 minute 80 questions trader test. It was followed by a skype interview, which involved a few puzzles and mostly market making game. The next round was face-to-face interviews. We had to sit through 3 tests. 1st the same 8 minute 80 questions. Followed by a series completion and an estimate based test. The estimate based test was something new, we had guess the given quantity to its nearest power of 10 and give a confidence rating for it. The interview was mostly puzzles and estimates.

spent about 1.5 months pretty much purely dedicated to preparing for interviews for all the pre-penultimate programs (Optiver, IMC, JS, SIG, Citadel, etc). I used these resources: Green book (Really good starter but I got bored of it after a few weeks) EverythingQuant (Went through literally every single interview prep question, went through the interview guides, and completed the probability course just to make sure I covered all bases) Briefly read through this guide Watched coding Jesus in my spare time (not sure if this helped directly lmao but he’s a great creator and very informative)