The process took 2 days. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL in Nov 2019
Interview
A 2-day on-site Superday interview, with coding challenge on the first day, and review of the coding challenge, CS question and behavioral interview on the second day. Interviewers are very friendly and the schedule is reasonable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Warship problem: what's the optimal way to detect all warship and what's the optimal way to arrange them.
I applied online. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL in Aug 2022
Interview
Technical Interview - 30 min questions ask about ML, like time series prediction, a database like how to design database, how to improve database design, and some basic statistics knowledge, any random stuff
I applied online. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Chicago, IL) in Jul 2021
Interview
All the interviewers I talked to were disinterested to a point where they were downright rude. With trading being a competitive industry, if they can't even find interviewers with a hint of enthusiasm for their company I'm not sure how they can convince anyone to join them.
OAs are tough, but if you can get most of the tests to pass you'll get a phone screen I think. It might take a long time to schedule, but phone screens have coding (not LC) or just CS fundamentals trivia depending on the team.