Interview guides
How each firm hires: every stage in order, what each round tests, and the reported questions to practice before you sit them.
Optiver interview guide
Optiver puts its hardest filter first: 80 arithmetic questions in 8 minutes, wrong answers scored against you, and a pass mark of 56.
Jane Street interview guide
Jane Street runs three stages built on games played out loud, and by the final round that becomes literal: you bet 100 poker chips on your own answers.
SIG interview guide
SIG screens you with a 20-minute quantitative test, then spends a day at Bala Cynwyd watching how you price games, including a live poker hand.
Citadel Securities interview guide
Citadel Securities runs a probability assessment, two phone rounds with traders and a Superday of up to seven interviews, and the bar at every step is fast, independent and correct.
IMC Trading interview guide
IMC filters with game-based cognitive tests before any human sees your application, then spends a Superday watching whether you update a price when the information changes.
DRW interview guide
DRW screens with an at-home probability test, then turns every later round into a conversation where a brainteaser becomes a market you have to quote.
Flow Traders interview guide
Flow Traders opens with 60 mental math questions you have six minutes to finish, then spends the rest of the process on ETFs and how you quote them.
Akuna Capital interview guide
Akuna Capital opens with two brutal timed tests, 80 math questions in 8 minutes and 24 sequence questions in 12, before a human ever reads your application.
Jump Trading interview guide
Jump Trading's Superday distills to four rounds in one day: two quant or math, one coding, one behavioral.
Five Rings interview guide
Five Rings opens with a phone screen where roughly 10 to 19 questions arrive read aloud on a 15 to 30 second countdown, before probability and game theory get any slower.