why jump trading
why trade
what is your career path
how do you rate your coding ability and basic theory?
do you work at other quant company
what do you do at your last internship
Acudí a una entrevista en Jump Trading (Londres, Inglaterra)
Entrevista
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.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Jump Trading (Londres, Inglaterra) en oct 2025
Entrevista
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).
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Jump Trading (Chicago, IL) en oct 2025
Entrevista
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.
