Knight Capital Group Interview Questions

3 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (20%)

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Interview Difficulty (84%)

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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 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.

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% Interns - FT Offers (26%)

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 Knight Capital Group

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Job Title
Group/Division
Location
Experience
Difficulty
Research Associate
Year 2014
Job Title Research Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Research Analyst
Year 2013
Job Title Research Analyst
Group/Division Electronic Trading Group
Location Jersey City
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Quant
Year 2013
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Knight Capital Group Examples

Quant research Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: 2014
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Interviewed by two managers for quantitative research group, by phone, after being referred by a recruiter. Each interview was about an hour long. First interview was upbeat and positive. Second interviewer seemed more of a downer and personal interaction wasn't super smooth over phone.
Interview Questions
Some questions about time series analysis, such as fitting a model of a jump diffusion process. Also questions about linear regression.

Quantitative Research Interview - Electronic Trading Group

Anonymous interview candidate in Jersey City
Interviewed: 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Applied online. The HR contacted me two days later and asked me to take a paper test, which are very technical. A few days after submitted the paper test, I was scheduled a phone interview, for one hour. Most of the time in the phone interview is still technical, though some chats about my background in the beginning and in the end. The process ended after the phone interview (two days later, they emailed me saying that my skillsets are not a good match).
Interview Questions
Given a coordinates of 5 points in the (x,y)-plane. say, (0,1), (1,1), (1,0), (-1,1), (0,0), compute by hand the least square regression line.

Quant Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Phone interview, then onsite. Phone interview: first collect general information. Then ask technical (maths, stats, brain teaser, programming, algorithms) questions. May include code test. You will be interviewed by multiple interviewers. Onsite: interview the whole day with a few people in the group. Technical questions and behavior questions.
Interview Questions
You have an array of N unsorted integers, how do you find the least m of them? N>>m
What data structure would you use?
Also discuss the computational complexity
asked over a phone interview.
This is a typical algorithm question.
You have to scan through all the integers.
You keep track of the least m in a sorted data structure, such as a binary tree.
After scanning each integer, you update the least m by insertion.
Insertion in a binary tree takes logarithmic running time.
Therefore,
the computational complexity of the algorithm is N*log(m) .
$1bn+
Est Annual Revenue
$500m-$999m
AUM

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