DRW Interview Questions

70 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (85%)

The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) 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. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, 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 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 (100%)

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.

3.7
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult
% Interns - FT Offers (58%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. 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 reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at DRW

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Job Title
Group/Division
Location
Experience
Difficulty
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2024
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Research
Location London
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Investment Research
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Trader
Year 2019
Job Title Trader
Group/Division Generalist
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Technology
Location Amsterdam
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Difficult
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2023
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division N/A
Location London
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Trading
Location London
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2023
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location London
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Engineer
Year 2022
Job Title Engineer
Group/Division N/A
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2022
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - DRW Examples

Quant researcher Interview - Research

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: January 2024
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Were fairly quick to answer my submission. Got my oa then phone interview then teams interview. Mainly talked about projects I worked on. Some academic projects too which was unusual but valid since i'm a new grad and apparently they use some of those techniques. Stopped at stage 2 which i found very unusual, and they didn't answer when I sent a message asking why. Overall decent experience just got rejected at an early stage which I found weird compared to my experiences with other similar.level firms.
Interview Questions
No real technicalities outside of asking me to explain my past projects and my internships with other firms. They were somewhat annoying because I felt they were always trying to trick me into making a mistake.

Quantative Research Interview - Investment Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: December 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
First is an online assignment, which consists of 6 maths questions. Then a zoom technical interview with several more maths questions. Unfortunately, I stopped at this stage. I didn't prepare well.
Interview Questions
You need to calculate the EV in one question and I didn't get the right answer, which made me fail.

quant trader Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: October 2019
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
First round phone interview with standard probability questions, then invited to an onsite super day where on the first day there was a one hour data exercise to predict stock volatility, and on the second day four rounds of one-on-one technical interviews (one round on the data exercise, one on coding, and two on probability and brain teasers ); at the end short listed candidates were brought to meet with hiring team leads for some casual/random conversations.
Interview Questions
On-site data exercise to predict stock vol

Quant dev/SWE Interview - Technology

Anonymous interview candidate in Amsterdam
Interviewed: October 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Had the OA which was two Leetcode style problems, which I passed. The next round was an interview with a developer. Did not involve any coding, but explaining how you would design some algorithms for streams of data and questions about knowledge - networks, computer architecture, os, sql. At the end some system design question. I found the interview difficult, did not pass further.
Interview Questions
Design a system that our traders could use that could process this data.

Quantitative Trader Analyst Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: October 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
OA of 6 questions, pretty sure you are not supposed to do the last one cause it can only be done through google
Then phone interview - mostly market awareness + 2 probability questions in the end + a market making game
Interview Questions
conditional probability, so revise LOTP and Bayes, then Uniform distributions

Quantitative Trading Analyst Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: November 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
First stage is a 'prove it' quantitative assessment which is sent automatically a day after appliation, involves solving 6 math questions in 45 minutes. Questions are were mostly around, sequences, statistics. I got about 4 or 5 out of 6. Did not get past this stage.
Interview Questions
They asked a question about the area of a quarter of a squircle shape, defined by a squircle equation on a 2d graph.

Quantitative trading Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: August 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Application online, screening, statistics and probability test, then two rounds, the first one is a phone interview, the second one is the assessment center
Interview Questions
Given my non-STEM background I had difficulties in solving the questions. The most difficult one was "You have 4 stocks (A, B, C, D), each of them can be either in winning state (W) of losing state (L). Every day one of them changes state surely. At t=0, all stocks are losing, please make a market for the number of losing stocks on t=3" (you have 15 seconds)

Quantitative Trading Analyst Intern Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: August 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
OA 6 questions 60 minutes, technical screen with trader and then onsite with 3 interviews. The first one as coding involving predicting values
Interview Questions
What is 9^21

Software Developer Interview

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: September 2022
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
online assessment, trivia phone interview, then a 2 day in person superday with a coding challenge and various interviews
Interview Questions
Python trivia

Quant Trading Intern Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: August 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
First step after applying was an online assessment: 6 questions, 45 minutes. Questions covered basic probability, statistics, linear algebra. Next step was zoom interview; this consisted of resume qs and probability qs.
Interview Questions
Question on expected number of streaks (heads or tails in a row) in a series of n coin flips