Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at ScalpTrade as 70% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Quantitative Trader and C++ Intern rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Junior Trader and Trading Intern roles were rated as the easiest.
Online assessment followed by 30 minute technical screening and 1 hour peer coding program. Overall, operating systems and C++ were heavily tested along with some networks knowledge. No interviews with HR.
1. OA (mental math, sequences)
2. Behavioral (30 minutes) relevant experiences
3. Final round including number of questions from Expected Value Calculations, Markov Chains, Calculating Greeks and another behavioral section with a researcher
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Calculate the expected number of rolls of a die to get the sequence 66
OA+ HR screen+ final round.
Project based questions, Linux + multithreading + networking basics .
How is a process different from a thread?
Explain the File system in Linux?
Socket programming based questions.