GETCO Interview Questions

3 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (46%)

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.

3.3
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (90%)

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

Interviews at GETCO

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Quant
Year 2013
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Sales and Trading
Location santa clara
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Developer
Year 2011
Job Title Developer
Group/Division
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Trading Assistant
Year 2010
Job Title Trading Assistant
Group/Division
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Very Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - GETCO Examples

quant Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in santa clara
Interviewed: 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Staffing Agency
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Applied through recruiter. Scheduled an interview after more than one month. The phone interview lasted one hour. First the interviewer explained his background. Then we went through my resume and explained one project in some detail. The questions are about algorithm - efficiency of sorting, and probability - expected value.
Interview Questions
Suppose each step is randomly uniformly distributed in (0,1). Calculate the expected number of steps to reach 1.

Software Developer Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: October 2011
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Two phone interviews. Then was brought on-site. There were a number of interviews - one about design, one about algorithms, one with some pair programming + design, and one more math/logic with the traders.
Interview Questions
There was a problem about designing a system to support a ping pong tournament. Setting up games, recording them, etc.

I tried to design something which was very agnostic about what the format of the tournament looked like, which the interviewers seemed pleased with.
Minimize the number of comparisons needed to determine what the second largest element of a list is.

Getting 2n comparisons is easy. But here's how to do better: One can run a single elimination tournament. Then, run a tournament between all of those that lost to the winner. This gets n-1 + log(n-2) comparisons.

Trading Assistant Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: 2010
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The process is very straightforward from campus recruiting to on site final round. HR was prompt in sending invite and arranging for transportation and lodging for the final round interview.

People are in general very friendly, and are definitely very smart. A couple of interviewers asked me to choose my favorite class and asked me detailed questions after that. They are clearly very very good with math, finance and economics in general.
Interview Questions
How would you explain Black Scholes to a non-finance major in 3 minutes? You should assume that he/she does not know what an option is.
What is the Brownian motion? Tell me to the best of your knowledge how it is applied in trading or trading research.