Opus Atlanta Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (16%)

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Trader
Year 2012
Job Title Trader
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Atlanta
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trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Atlanta
Interviewed: 2012
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Personality Test
Drug Test
Background Check
Interview
1. Applied online through careerbuilder
2. Received an email with a bunch of questions
3. Replied the questions
4. Scheduled a phone interview
5. Phone Interview
6. Another phone Interview
7. In-person Interview.

Interview was pretty straightforward .
People seem nice.
Training program doesn't seem very structural.
Very small office, less than 20 people.
Interview Questions
Screening questions:
1. Do you consider yourself a risk taker or risk averse? Explain a scenario that describes your answer to the question.

2. If your total net paycheck (aka take home profits) in your second full year of trading was $40,000, would you consider that a success, failure, or somewhere in between?

3. Do you have any trading experience?

4. How do you plan to support yourself in the early stages of your trading career when the likelihood of producing profits is highly improbable?

5. What have you done to further the assumed goal of becoming a trader?

6. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

7. What makes you a better candidate than the next applicant (i.e., the other 200 applicants who have responded to the Careerbuilder ad in the past 30 days)?

8. What are your hobbies?
Followed by the screening questions, 2 phone interviews with the head traders confirming your interest in trading.
1. Why trading?
2. Tell me a trading strategy.
3. What happens if you are a terrible trader?
4. Do you have a backup plan.
5. Basic FIT questions.
6. Strength/ Weakness.
In-person interview
Some technical questions, but nothing difficult.
1. What would you buy if interest rate goes up?
2. Relationship between inflation and interest rate.
3. Gold prices movement.