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Updated Mar 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Java Developer at Knight Capital
Posted Mar 24, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Jersey City, NJ (took a day)
Went on this interview through a recruiter. I arrived 10 minutes prior, asked for the hiring manager who they seem to have trouble reaching. Finally they told me to take the elevator up arrived at the IT but door was locked. Someone was nice enough to let me in. No sign of hiring manager. 5 minutes later, he comes and gets me. It did not seem like they interview people much since they did not have a conference room or office available to interview. We finally ended up in an office that was like Arizona in the middle of the Summer. The hiring manager asked about experience and asked some technical questions. From the questions, it was clear that they were using J2EE circa 2001... going from JSP/Servlets to Struts 1.x. From there is was clear this job not for me. A lead developer came in looking sloppy, miserable and gave me a dead fish handshake. This was my first interview in quite some time and used it to bone up on interviewing skills otherwise would have walked out.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Trading Operationist Intern at Knight Capital
Posted Jan 25, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Jersey City, NJ (took 4+ weeks)
The interviewer was very nice, giving me suggestions and hints.
however it seems we miscommunicated before hand, and i originally was applying for the software engineer intern yet ended in the trading operationist position, which resulted in my expected tragedy...
i was asked various questions on math, like hidden markov model, probability, combinatorics,
and then i guess out of kindness the interviewer figuratively asked me some VERY simple coding questions...
then the interview ended.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Quant at Knight Capital
Posted Jan 18, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took a day)
phone interview
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Quant Researcher at Knight Capital
Posted Dec 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 (took a day)
how to identify a missing entry of an array with patterns
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Java Developer at Knight Capital
Posted Oct 30, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Jersey City, NJ (took 2+ weeks)
The interview was got from the university career center. First it was a phone interview, basically about what you can do according to the job description. Not really hard questions. The second interview was at the company building, about basic Java knowledge; SQL syntax, database knowledge, differences with other languages.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Quant at Knight Capital
Posted Oct 24, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took 3 weeks)
The interview problems are standard brain teasers, probability and programming.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Associate, Operations at Knight Capital
Posted May 24, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Jersey City, NJ (took 2 weeks)
I interviewed in their Jersey City office, the HQ. The interview consisted of 2 stages:
#1 was to meet with the actual team, about 5 people, who were asking questions about operations, about what I did in the past. No trick questions, you should be able to talk about these things freely if you have experience.
#2 interview was a week later to meet with HR and 2 senior managers (including head of electronic trading). The interview seemed out of place because I wouldn't imagine why senior people in such a big company need to waste time on interviewing every single candidate. That's why the interview was dragging, it was hard to keep conversation on professional level.
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Seems like Operations team is ran by real back office people, did not see any passion, energy or interest in markets. The only thing the team cares about is reducing costs, saving money, etc.
The salary they offered was offensive, completely out of the market. So it was basically big waste of my time because even before the interview I stated that I want to make X much. They try to trick you by "giving you all the Series licenses you want", but at the end of the day this does not pay rent. Also the location is very far from the city.
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Quantitative Developer at Knight Capital
Posted Oct 27, 2010
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 (took a day)
The phone interviewer started with questions on my work experience, followed by two coding questions. The total phone interview was about an hour. The interviewer introduced the job and company, and answered my questions. The interviewer was professional and courteous, and the overall experience was positive.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Quantitative Analyst at Knight Capital
Posted Oct 12, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2010 (took a day)
Had a series of phone interviews with them. Started of with a on campus first round interview for a internship position and then there was a hour long phone screen. Went well but took another offer. Went back to them after the summer for a full time position and had another phone interview but did not make it to the next round. Questions were related to probability and stochastic calculus
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at Knight Capital
Posted Sep 8, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed May 2010 in Jersey City, NJ (took 4 days)
Skill test was consisting of programs, related to data structures and algorithms.
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