I applied through campus, first have a 45 mins oncampus interview. After passed through it, I was invited to Chicago for an onsite interview. All the technical questions were not difficult. I think all are at undergraduate level. I solved all the technical questions. They also asked some behavior questions.
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.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Jump Trading (London, England) in Oct 2025
Interview
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).
Interview questions [1]
Question 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
I applied online. I interviewed at Jump Trading (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2025
Interview
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.