Kershner Trading Interview Questions

2 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (45%)

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 (62%)

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

Interviews at Kershner Trading

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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2019
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Equity Capital Markets
Location new york
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
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Year 2016
Job Title N/A
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Kershner Trading Examples

trader Interview - Equity Capital Markets

Anonymous interview candidate in new york
Interviewed: February 2019
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
asked a lot about markets and trading techniques and investment thesis, did not have a lot of math like other trading firms
Interview Questions
what accomplishment are you proud of?

Kershner Trading Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: February 2016
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
First a 30 min phone interview, then 2 one-to-one interview. Very conventional quant interview, ML, CS, stat, math, finance
Interview Questions
Some probability questions:

1)
Unfair coin with P(H) = 1/3 and P(T) = 2/3.
a) How to make an event with 50% probability?
b) Expected number of flips until a realization occurs?
c) Can you create a strategy to reduce the number of flips necessary?
d) Can you create a strategy to reduce the number of flips necessary for an unfair coin with any bias?

2)
Alice and Bob play baseball for two periods. Can Alice have a better batting average than Bob in the first period but Bob have a better batting average overall?