TransMarket Group Interview Questions

51 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (83%)

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
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  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (100%)

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.

3.6
  • Very Easy
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  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult
% Interns - FT Offers (91%)

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 TransMarket Group

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Intern
Year 2017
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2016
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Quant
Year 2017
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Research
Location Martigny
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Junior Trader
Year 2016
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Junior Trader
Year 2014
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Generalist
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2014
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Junior Trader
Year 2015
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Software
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2014
Job Title Intern
Group/Division N/A
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - TransMarket Group Examples

Operations Intern Interview - Operations

Anonymous interview candidate in chicago
Interviewed: November 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
A phone call walking me through my resume and the skills I acquired. Cared a lot about my experience “herding cats”
Interview Questions
Walked through resume

Trading Analyst Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: August 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Personality Test
Interview
Talked to a trader in the company that focused on probability games involving dice rolls and coins to find fair value. Then a few questions around options and greeks. Finally, we talked about my background and why trading why this role etc. Much more in depth on the background questions - make sure you have that down.
Interview Questions
What is the delta of a ATM call, and how to delta hedge a long call. (it was hard as I didn't know much option knowledge.

Junior Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: July 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Transmarket Group was the first interview I got at a graduate. The first HR call is fine. I failed the technical interview. The questions were not that difficult in hindsight but I'll describe them in detail.
Interview Questions
If you roll 5 die sequentially, what is the probability of getting 3 ones in a row?
There was a generic call stradle question where you had to buy the two extremes and sell two of the middle one.
There was a question about the expected time it takes you to exit a cave if one path leads to the exit and takes 5 hours, one path leads to the exit and takes 3 hours, and one path leads back to the room and takes 2 hours. You pick a random path every time.

Quant Trader Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in chicago
Interviewed: August 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The first step was a phone interview with one of the other junior quantitative traders. After this, there was a zoom interview
Interview Questions
Nothing was out of the ordinary. Mostly math and probability questions. EV of dice roll, etc.

Trader Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: August 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Scheduled for a call with a Trader, call was a mix of technical and behavioral questions. Friendly and open to answering questions.
Interview Questions
No unexpected questions

Quant Trading Intern Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: November 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Background Check
Interview
Began initial phone screen consisting of basic probability and coding questions followed by a multiple short essays test on derivatives. This was followed by the on-site which consisted of four consecutive 1-1 interviews.
Interview Questions
One of the more memorable questions I got asked went as follows: I strap you to the chair, pull out a standard six shooter revolver and load in two consecutive rounds. I spin, point the gun at you, pull the trigger, and we both hear a *click*. I'm going to pull the trigger again, but before I do so you have the option of whether you wish for me to spin again. If your goal is to maximize your odds of survival, do you opt to have me spin the revolver again, and what led to you making that decision.
Additionally they asked quite a few questions pertaining to ones coding ability, such as how to handle basic python libraries for data analysis, so don't have any of that on your resume unless you're ready to get drilled on it.

Quant Trading Intern Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: October 2018
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Background Check
Interview
Got referred internally through an employee. Still had to go through two rounds of phone calls and a final round consisting of four one on one hour long interviews. Was a great experience, quite difficult and challenging but the interviewers conveyed their passion for their jobs and were able to relate the math and probability questions they asked to trading, which made things even better.
Interview Questions
Nothing was particularly unexpected. Difficult though, yes. Many math, probability, and expected value type questions. Some basic questions about options and the greeks but nothing too in depth and you could certainly say you don't have much prior experience on those types of questions; I would assume I was asked them because they were on my resume. Also some basic programming questions, again basically just making sure you can back up what you say you can do on your resume. The overwhelming majority of questions on the phone calls and in person interviews were the classic style questions on dice rolls, probability, and expected value type things. One of the four interviews on site was a little less technical and more on the markets, just asking what I liked to follow and where the major indexes were as of late. Asked a few questions about bond yield and spread, but again nothing horrible.

Intern Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: January 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I applied online, it took them quite a while to get back to me. I was accepted for a phone interview, but did not make it past that.
Interview Questions
This company (unlike most I interview with) actually asked behavioral/fit questions, went through my resume, asked about the math classes I've taken and (because I took lin alg) asked me Linear Algebra questions. Afterwards, we did the more usual probability/game questions. One I remember is:

The is a deck of 26 red and 26 black cards. You draw two cards. If they re both black, you get a point. If they are both red, your opponent get a point. If they are different colors, they are discarded. You win $100 if you get more points than you opponent. How much would you pay to play this game?

Junior Quantitative Trader Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Austin
Interviewed: February 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
First was some behavioral questions, then went through my resume, then several technical questions. Took about 1 hr overall. Great experience though, helped me realize where I should improve. Questions on glassdoor are totally useless in my case, though I took one whole days to go through it. Hope that I could get another chance with Transmarket in the future.
Interview Questions
I applied online through my school's job board. They scheduled two interviews for me, one technical and one behavioral. The technical was a pair coding exercise with an engineer from the team. First question was on BST traversal and second question was about pairing two sets of arrays in an efficient manner. A few minutes before my behavioral interview, I got an email telling me they were moving forward with other candidates. Given two perfectly correlated random variables, what information about X, Y do you need to deduce value of X?

Quant Trader Intern Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: December 2017
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Skills Test
Interview
They accept applications on a rolling basis so you can apply whenever you want. First step seems to be a HackerRank coding challenge for both software development and trading roles. I didn't pass the coding challenge (Python).

The coding problems weren't conceptually difficult, but having only studied python for about a week, I had no idea how to actually implement the code. Transmarket seems to value coding skills much more than other trading firms.
Interview Questions
For me the hardest part was the implementation of the python code. The statistical concepts and example trading game were familiar, but my programming background was insufficient to be able to implement the code in a timed environment.

I thought there might be questions about the pandas python library, but there weren't. Don't expect to be able to use custom libraries for the coding challenge either - they want to see that you are able to construct your own algorithms.

Definitely take the challenge seriously and either do substantial self-study or take a course or two.