Just got an offer to do Belvedere’s hirevue math assessment. I was wondering if anyone has any insights on what to expect on it, so I know how to prepare. I’m a non stem major with no coding experience.
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Literally just took this the other day. It's 14 questions 25 min, lots of numerical brain teasers like given 7^1650 how many trailing zeroes are there, what are the sums of the digits etc. 2020 people standing in a circle, starting with 1 you go around and shoot the guy to the right - repeats until only 1 remains, what number is it. Honestly, it's a bunch of BS and doesn't really help with skills in trading. It was more pattern recognition around numbers so I guess more in-depth thinking, but the other firms who test mental-math, probability/statistics more heavily translate to trading a bit more. I also sucked at this one and performed better in other companies so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Also a question on converting some number like 200! to base 12 how many trailing zeroes are there. A whole ton of large number manipulation and pattern recognition. I couldn't answer half of them and got frustrated since I performed so well on Optiver and others.
I’m taking it this afternoon and I’m probably gonna get steamrolled. I applied a while ago, was shocked to see I got offered to take an assessment. My resume wasn’t too hot at the time of applying. Thanks for insight on what to expect, it’s super helpful!
what types of math would help out with these? Number theory? Are there any good resources that you would recommend?
I'm from a non-math STEM background, so some of these questions seem more random to me.
EDIT: sorry, just saw you mentioned pattern-recognition
Dude, I honestly have no clue, it's like number theory. You can probably simplify the 7^2020 and think like pattern-wise, what is 7^1 2 3 4 remainders and then see the pattern for 2020 etc. This is not my specialty. I passed Optiver and Flow, Flow's mental math was 75 mental with 10 minutes FILL IN THE BLANK, Optivers was 80 mental with 8 minutes but it was literally multiple-choice, with a lot of emphasis on fractions.
is this for the hybrid or just trader?
Just trader
https://quizlet.com/568026712/math-assessment-flash-cards/#_=_
for those that took this, how long after you took it did you hear back from them?
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