Spot Trading LLC Interview Questions

3 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (67%)

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3.7
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Interview Difficulty (83%)

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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.

3.3
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% Interns - FT Offers (2%)

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 Spot Trading LLC

YearPositionLocationGroup/DivisionExperienceDifficulty
2015STP traderBostonTradingNeutralAverage
2013Summer Development InternChicagoTechnologyPositiveAverage
2012FE analystChicagoPositiveDifficult

STP trader Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Boston

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: September 2015 Date Submitted: Oct 16, 2015

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Two back to back 30 minute interviews with technical staff. All technical questions. Very little fit questions, although in the end they emailed me saying that i did well on the tech questions, but that i didnt have enough trading experience.

Interview Questions

Two glass balls to be dropped from 100 story building. Whats the minimum number of drops to determine the top floor that is gauranteed that the balls wont break?
Sample Answer

Summer Development Intern Interview - Technology

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: January 2013 Date Submitted: Feb 11, 2015

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test

Interview

The process was simple. Applied through a career fair held at my university. There was a phone screen which consisted of behavorial and technical questions related to TCP/UDP and other Systems stuff. I was invited onsite for a set of interviews. These were pretty standard interview questions.

Interview Questions

The process was simple. Applied through a career fair held at my university. There was a phone screen which consisted of behavorial and technical questions related to TCP/UDP and other Systems stuff. I was invited onsite for a set of interviews. These were pretty standard interview questions. Convert a string to an integer,Nth Fibonacci number, write merge sort.
Sample Answer

FE analyst Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: December 2012 Date Submitted: Feb 12, 2013

Application

Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Received interview from on campus resume drop. 2 one on one interview each lasting 30 mins first round. Very technical, options, black scholes model intuitions. Second round in their office in Chicago. Great office , seems to have good culture.

Interview Questions

Derive black scholes . Why does the formula make sense?
List and explain Greeks in order of importance. Analyze pnl to change in Greeks
Sample Answer