Allston Trading Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (66%)

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The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

3.5
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (87%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

3.3
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at Allston Trading

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Trader
Year 2012
Job Title Trader
Group/Division Equities
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Analyst
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Easy
Quant
Year 2012
Job Title Quant
Group/Division
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2012
Job Title Intern
Group/Division
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Allston Trading Examples

Trader Interview - Equities

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: August 2012
Date Submitted: Sep 24, 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Group Interview
Interview
Several phone interviews followed by on-site interview. On-site I was led to an office and had 4-5 interviews over the course of the day. At the end of the day I was told they would get in touch. About 1 week later I got an offer via email.

The questions were all over the place. They ranged from brainteasers to coding questions to math problems to finance.
Interview Questions
1. How does the volatility skew in commodity futures markets relate to real-world concerns of agg farmers and traders for those products? Why is it not symmetric?

2. You are a duck floating in the middle of pond with radius r. A wolf is waiting on land to eat you. The wolf can travel m times as fast you can. Once you reach land you need distance d to reach flight speed to escape. Name a strategy the duck should pursue to escape and define the maximum m that would allow the duck to successfully escape.
Sample Answer

Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: March 2014
Date Submitted: Sep 03, 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
There is a 8-min online math test and you need to do some simple calculations. I think it's kinda easy and i still have 1.5 mins left when i finished all the questions. After the test, i was contacted by the HR to set up the phone interview. They are all general questions.
Interview Questions
General questions like, why do you want to be a trader? What is your career plan in 5 years? What is past working experience?
Sample Answer

Quant Researcher Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: December 2012
Date Submitted: Feb 25, 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Group Interview
Interview
1st round, phone interview, several technical questions (normal quant interview questions + some time series analysis stuffs)

2nd round, video conference with 3 trader/quant, the quality of communication is not good, which make the interview a little harder (heard that this is a new move for them too)
Interview Questions
traders will ask some real trading strategy questions, which is tough for people haven't involve more than 1 yrs of full-time experience (internship or less than 1 yrs experience is difficult to handle these type of questions)
Sample Answer

Algorithmic Trader Intern Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: December 2012
Date Submitted: Dec 20, 2012
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Applied through OCR and received an email about a first round phone interview. Was a 45 minute long interview by 2 traders. A few probability questions, I wasn't really ready for them to be honest. The person was nice though. A few trading related questions too. More about backtesting/quantitative trading.
Interview Questions
If I took 100 people randomly from the streets and put you in a trading competition with them, what would be your strategy?
Sample Answer