SMW Trading Company Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (8%)

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Interview Difficulty (10%)

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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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Interviews at SMW Trading Company

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Year 2008
Job Title Trader
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
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Difficulty
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Interview Questions & Answers - SMW Trading Company Examples

Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: May 2008
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I first met with a team of junior traders to describe the role. Then I met with the HR head, and finally one of the partners.
Interview Questions
What is the circumference of the moon? Take me through your thought process. And then he asked a question about a certain time on a clock and what the angle would be. Finally, he did some rapid fire mental math stuff, but it was just adding and subtracting obscure numbers. I think most of the process is to determine if you can handle yourself under pressure and how you work through problems when you're faced with something stressful. I didn't get too rattled but they were definitely tough to solve.