Wolverine Trading Interview Questions (2025) - 20 Entries

Wolverine Trading Interview Questions

20 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (76%)

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.

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Interview Difficulty (97%)

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.

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% Interns - FT Offers (34%)

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 Wolverine Trading

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Year

Job Title

Group/Division

Location

Experience

Difficulty

Student / Prospective Monkey

Year 2025

Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey

Group/Division N/A

Location Chicago

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Average

Student / Prospective Monkey

Year 2024

Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey

Group/Division Sales and Trading

Location Chicago

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Average

Student / Prospective Monkey

Year 2023

Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey

Group/Division N/A

Location Bellevue

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Average

1st Year Analyst

Year 2019

Job Title 1st Year Analyst

Group/Division N/A

Location Chicago

Experience

Negative

Difficulty

Average

Intern

Year 2019

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Prop Trading

Location Chicago, IL, USA

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Easy

Student / Prospective Monkey

Year 2019

Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey

Group/Division Operations

Location Chicago

Experience

Negative

Difficulty

Very Easy

Intern

Year 2016

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Prop Trading

Location Chicago

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Difficult

Student / Prospective Monkey

Year 2017

Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey

Group/Division Prop Trading

Location Chicago

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Average

Intern

Year 2016

Job Title Intern

Group/Division Prop Trading

Location Chicago

Experience

Positive

Difficulty

Average

1st Year Associate

Year 2014

Job Title 1st Year Associate

Group/Division Quantitative Research

Location Chicago

Experience

Neutral

Difficulty

Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Wolverine Trading Examples

Trading intern Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: January 2025

Date Submitted: Mar 08, 2025

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Typical dice questions that you can find in most probability textbooks, behavioral questions, why do you want to work?

Interview Questions

Variation on the wine glass question

Sample Answer

Junior Trader Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: October 2024

Date Submitted: Jan 30, 2025

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Employee Referral

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

Classic interview, HR interview first then spoke with one of the traders, then another. Both of them were nice but don't think I was what they were looking for. Questions on EV & Dice.

Interview Questions

Question about dice, if I rolled a 6 sided dice what is the EV of each roll.

Sample Answer

Software engineering intern Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Bellevue

Interviewed: September 2023

Date Submitted: Oct 18, 2023

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

I applied online and was given an OA assessment with two simple leetcode style questions. Then was moved on to behavioral stage in which the interviewer asked behavioral questions for the first 30 minutes and then asked technical questions as it was a “mixed interview”.

Interview Questions

Binary tree specific questions

Linked list vs array

Why Wolverine, why fintech

OS questions, thread vs core

Sample Answer

Quant Trader Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: January 2019

Date Submitted: Mar 10, 2021

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Skills Test

Interview

Was Tested through Hackerrank and then conducted 2 phone interviews. Hackerrank was fairly straightforward coding questions with some slightly advanced stats and probability questions.

Interview Questions

Asked about Resume and previous experience.

Sample Answer

Quantitative Trader Internship Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago, IL, USA

Interviewed: October 2019

Date Submitted: Oct 22, 2019

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

First received a coding challenge that consisted of some simple coding exercises. Next had 2 phone interviews. One was with a trader and was technical consistently of questions varying from option theory, coding, data science, probability, and a brain teaser at the end. The other was talking with a data scientist about previous work experience and some technical questions on data science.

Interview Questions

They asked some strange questions about coding I did not expect. They asked what the difference between static and dynamic programming languages were and I did not know. They also asked about Big O notation. They also asked about pricing options given an ask and a bid price for options with different strikes if you were to short one and long another. I was also asked a brain teaser about the hat problem where 3 people go into a room with I think 3 red and 2 blue hats. I was also asked about some assumptions of the Black Scholes model and also OLS when I was doing the interview with the data scientist.

Sample Answer

Hedge Fund Operations Analyst Interview - Operations

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: January 2019

Date Submitted: Jan 30, 2019

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

1 on 1 Interview

Interview

Phone interview with COO then a couple weeks before on site interview with a few members of the team

Interview Questions

Are you sure you are interested in this position?-asked by 2/3 interviewers 3 or 4 times each. Tell me about your internship experiences. Tell me about a time that you had to deal with a conflict. Tell me about a time that you displayed leadership. Tell me about a time that you resolved a conflict with your peers. What are your long term goals?-also asked multiple times by the same person after they received more than adequate answers. Why did you choose your university? Tell me about your computer programming skills

Sample Answer

intern quant trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: October 2016

Date Submitted: Nov 13, 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

Interview

The interview process started on-campus and then proceeded with a skills test. Lots of mental math and logic questions.

Interview Questions

Some of the more difficult questions included the algorithm questions that were asked in the online take home test. There was also a I believe minitab output, but could've been another statistical software output and you were asked to identify to things from that output which is something that I have never seen before. Also they asked a questions about strike prices which is pretty uncommon for proprietary trading as most firms alomst prefer that you have no previous financial knowledge coming into the position.

Sample Answer

Data Analyst Intern Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: October 2017

Date Submitted: Nov 14, 2017

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

Interview

Met with a recruiter at career fair, got scheduled for a first round phone interview about a week later. First round phone interview was mostly statistics brainteasers and a couple of coding algorithm questions. Second round phone interview was focused on fit. Onsite interview included multiple technical and behavioral interviews, as well as a test on finance and statistics.

Interview Questions

Phone interviews were pretty standard brainteasers and fit questions. There was a Bayes question, some expected value questions, and a sorting algorithm question. The second phone interview went pretty in-depth into my previous coding experience, so make sure to be prepared to talk about the projects you've worked on in detail. The onsite test was fairly challenging, and was pretty comprehensive. It included more computer science and brainteaser questions, but also lots of stats and finance questions that hadn't been tested on in previous rounds.

Sample Answer

Trading Intern Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: October 2016

Date Submitted: Nov 20, 2016

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

They called and asked about things on my resume, then asked if I had coding experience. They gave me an expected value problem.

Interview Questions

No unexpected questions. The expected value question of the die was, "If you had to roll a dice and then roll another, what would be the value I would need in order to roll another dice? (If the first dice) was too low. I was unable to answer this question, and could tell I failed the interview.

Another question they asked was about the experience I had coding, and how I utilized it in my previous internship.

Wolverine Trading seemed to only want the market making side, rather than hire discretionary traders.

Sample Answer

quantitative researcher Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago

Interviewed: October 2014

Date Submitted: Jan 08, 2015

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

Less than 1 month

Application

Phone Interview

Interview

Submitted application during a campus career fair. Got an interview request right after (less than a week). The interviewer was nice. But never heard back from them after the interview.

Interview Questions

An algorithm question - Got an array mixed of positive and negative numbers. Develop an algorithm to find out the section that contains the maximum sum. For example, for an array with ( -1, 2, 4, -9, 8), the segment of (2, 4) would be the part you are looking for.

Sample Answer