Virtu Financial Interview Questions

21 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (79%)

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.

3.4
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (96%)

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
% Interns - FT Offers (45%)

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.

10%
  • 0%
  • 10%
  • 20%
  • 30%
  • 40%
  • 50%
  • 60%
  • 70%
  • 80%
  • 90%
  • 100%

Interviews at Virtu Financial

Filter by:
Year
Job Title
Group/Division
Location
Experience
Difficulty
Quant
Year 2023
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Dublin
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
2nd Year Associate
Year 2021
Job Title 2nd Year Associate
Group/Division Generalist
Location
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Average
Quant
Year 2009
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location NEW YORK
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2022
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Generalist
Location New York
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Junior Trader
Year 2021
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Markets
Location Dublin
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2022
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division N/A
Location London
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
1st Year Analyst
Year 2021
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Trading
Location Dublin
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2021
Job Title Intern
Group/Division N/A
Location New York
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Easy
Quant
Year 2021
Job Title Quant
Group/Division N/A
Location New York
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
2nd Year Analyst
Year 2021
Job Title 2nd Year Analyst
Group/Division Other
Location London
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Virtu Financial Examples

Graduate Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Dublin
Interviewed: April 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I applied and heard back from them within a week. I then got an invite to an online assessment. After completion they send you an invite to schedule a HR interview within a week.
Interview Questions
The leetcode questions were all easy level. The HR question also seems to use the same brief brainteaser in every session.
1) What is the angle between the hour and minute hand when the time shows 15.15?
2) Follow up: When do the hands meet again?

Posit alert sales Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in
Interviewed: February 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
3-4 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Interview
initial interview with 3 different people, then a python test, then another 3 rounds of interviews. mostly behavioural but had 2 interviews with the quant team too
Interview Questions
if you are in an island surrounded by a shark, how can you escape

Trading Analyst Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous employee in NEW YORK
Interviewed: June 2009
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Interview started with about an hour long IQ/Intelligence test, and about an hour long coding test.
Afterwards, about 3 rounds of interview. First was with CTO/technology people, mix of personality and coding questions. Next was with Head Trader at the time and was some motivation questions and brain teasers. Finally, was with the senior trader of the desk i was to join, with mostly cultural fit questions.
Interview Questions
Given nickels and dimes and quarters, how to create a particular sum with fewest number of coins

Trading Analyst Interview - Generalist

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: April 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Interview with Recruiting senior.
20min zoom interview
Dug into background, related projects and transferrable skills. Explained about the role
Interview Questions
Tell me about a time where you went above and beyond for a client

Quantative Trader Interview - Markets

Anonymous employee in Dublin
Interviewed: October 2021
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Background Check
Interview
Starts with a coding test of 5 questions. These have not changed in like 5 years so one can probably find them online somewhere.
First call is with HR, describe the process and the job. Concludes with a few trivial brainteasers.
Next up is 3 interviews with traders. Format is Brainteaser - CV questions - General chat. They are out to get people who embellish their CV.
Online IQ test - Seemed fairly easy.
Finally interview with head of trading - same format as before.

Generally, they can be a bit scattered in interview organization. They also value you not being unbearable to work with surprisingly high.

Advice: practice Green Book and Heard on the Street - some of the questions came from these verbatim. Don't lie too blatantly on your CV, they ask tough questions about one's stated skills. Be able to defend anything down on the CV for over a minute at least.
Interview Questions
A bag has 20 blue balls and 14 yellow balls. Each time you randomly take two balls out and do not put them back in. At each step, if they have the same color you add a blue ball to the bag. If they have different colors you add a yellow ball. Repeating this process until it ends, what is the color of the last ball in the bag?

Intern Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: February 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Apply online, get sent a mental maths test with very easy questions. Then it is 3 zoom interviews mainly focused on CV and brainteasers.
Interview Questions
Brainteasers

Quant Trader Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Dublin
Interviewed: October 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
You first go through a 5 question online coding test, and then there's a HR interview, 3-5 rounds of technical interviews, and a final technical interview followed by a meeting with CEO
Interview Questions
Some algorithm questions for coding in python

Trading Intern Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: December 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Applied online, then got a coding assessment. Then I got a phone interview with HR where they asked some brainteasers and basic quantitative questions. There was also one behavioral question at the end. I made it to the next round (60 min phone interview), but then they told me the position was filled before I even was able to do the next round.
Interview Questions
The behavioral question at the end was very different from anything that I had been asked in other interviews, but just be genuine.

Quant Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: August 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
One online assessment, one hr round, and one tech round.
The oa is faily easy,it is 5 easy coding questions
HR round is just some behavioral questions.
Tech round contains resume questions and math problems
Interview Questions
Given two iid random variable X,Y with gaussain N(0,1), what is the probability of P(x>0|x+y>0)?

Trading operation analyst Interview - Other

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: August 2021
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
The process consists of 1 codility test, 1 HR screening, 1-hour tech interview, and 1 onsite.

-The codility test includes 5 questions, which lasted 75 mins in total.
-The HR screening is a background, and CV check, followed up by two brain teasers.
-1-hour tech interview was about behavioral, specific products that you applied for, CV, and brain teasers.
-In the final onsite, you will have 4 interviews, talking with the operation team, trading team, some senior and developers.
Interview Questions
What's your status and current situation.