DRW Interview Questions
Updated Feb 4, 2023
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Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at DRW
3 interviews in the span of about 1 month - 1 screening with HR, 1 longer interview with some members of the team going through CV + attention to detail test, 1 lunch with the team
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied online. I interviewed at DRW
3 stages, quick, and simple but the interviewers were really rude to me sometimes they did not even pay attention to me as they were looking at their phones. The questions were not that hard but I did not revise them properly. Be prepared!
- Questions about options and strike price
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at DRW
The process started with the HR call, followed with a phone interview and an on-site is interview The HR responds very slowly, and does not reply often. But the interview with engineers has been pleasant
- Concurrency and java related stuffs

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at DRW
An interview process is a conversation with an interviewer, during which they might ask questions of what the code is doing or they also might ask you to implement some class given requirements.
- Be ready to implement parts of standard library classes in c++. Like vector, smart pointers, etc.

Anonymous Employee
I interviewed at DRW
1 phone call and with following 1 superday including 3 interviews with members that you are possibly going to work with. (Might be traders or reseachers depends on the role you apply). Very fast process.
- What's your favorite subject in college? Estimate MLE's variance PCA

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied online. I interviewed at DRW in Jan 2023
Online assessment with three coding questions. You can choose from Python, C++, and some other languages. You will have 2.5 hours (I believe but can't remember exactly) to complete three coding challenges. You will have to write test cases on your own.
- 1. basic lists/strings. 2. graph, shortest path. (I didn't know how to do this one) 3. OOP to implement a stack and some advanced features.

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at DRW
The interviewer introduced the team and asked me to introduce myself. Then the interviewer asked questions based on the resume about previous experience. After that, the interviewer asked some basic financial questions.
- Questions about resume Questions about finance

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at DRW
Failed the online test but never received any feedback. The first few questions were easy but the last two were significantly harder. It is not clear how much one needs to score in order to pass.
- Some linear algebra and probability questions

Anonymous Interview Candidate in London, England
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at DRW (London, England) in Dec 2022
The process went smoothly but wasn't short in time. I was asked to talk about myself and explain a project I have taken part in. Then went on to some probability and stats questions.
- What is the MLE of a sequence of Bernoulli rvs?

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Montreal, QC
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at DRW (Montreal, QC) in Dec 2022
initial 30 min call with team lead (brush up on technical questions: eg: difference between a list and a tuple ), followed by OA (LC style questions) and then on site final round (2 interviews about 45 mins each, one technical and one behavioural ). Behavioral also included technical questions eg, what is an API etc. Technical again was a LC style question, there was only whiteboarding no code. Everyone was really nice and friendly, super cool perks, the work sounds interesting. Did not hear back after final round (been over a month), so I guess it is a rejection.
- Difference between a list and a tuple What is an API Leetcode Medium questions
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at DRW as 44.0% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.37 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Software Engineer(Internship) and Quantitative Researcher rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Trader Assistant and Software Engineer roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at DRW takes an average of 15 days when considering 226 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Trader Assistant had the quickest hiring process (on average 5 days), whereas Trading Analyst roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 18 days).
Common stages of the interview process at DRW according to 226 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone Interview: 26.96%
One on One Interview: 22.18%
Presentation: 20.48%
Group Panel Interview: 7.51%
Personality Test: 6.14%
IQ Intelligence Test: 5.80%
Skills Test: 5.12%
Drug Test: 2.73%
Background Check: 2.05%
Other: 1.02%
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