S&T interview questions you've gotten

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Every single interview will have a "How do you keep up with the markets?" Followed by "Is there any specific topic in the news/industry trend that you follow" so make sure to stay updated.

Another popular one was "Explain to my grandma what happened in 08" now it's probably a pretty easy question with Big Short available on Netflix.

I tutored stat in school so I got asked a lot of probability brain teasers, some guy brought me a regression graph of two securities with a bunch of statistical metrics on it and asked me to walk him through it.

Make me a market on "x". Is pretty common and is usually followed by some type of decision making exercise (proposed bet) to see how confident you are in your interval.

I'll post more if I can remember something else.

Beyond these, a large majority of questions in S&T interviews will be behvaioral and fit driven. So have your story ready, don't botch the basics like "why S&T" and practice your speech delivery.

Best question I have heard ' What color are your socks today?' - If the candidate looks down to check/doesn't see the joke, dinged.

Tell me about a time you cheated and why you regretted it

Lots of quick little math questions so they can see how you think on your feet. Luckily I'm good at simple math.

One of the most memorable was "describe 12 uses for a brick other than construction" and the interviewer sat there until I came up with all 12 answers.

Lets play a game...

We will go back and forth counting up from 0 to 100. You can add anything less than 7, so for example I say 2, you can say any number up to 9, and I can go up to 7 higher than that. The person that says 100 loses...

What do you do to keep up with the markets? Pitch a long and short thesis. What would you do to hedge this position? What are 3 themes you see in the market?

If I give you 100 million dollar today, how would you invest this money?

Mostly stock pitches and mental math questions. Stock pitches are usually followed by questions on valuations, risk metrics, investment thesis, and near tearm catalysts. Math questions is like "what's the square root of 150 in 5s"type of question.

"Are you even interested in this job" at the superday after spending about 10-12 hours (not including travel) in person at recruitment events and interviews during trips to 2 different offices in different cities and taking every possible related class because I didn't have my own equity trading account (for a fixed income desk).

Walk through Black Scholes Inputs, what does the formula do?, if X input goes up or down, what happens to the option price?, walk through of a few probability theory questions/brain teasers, if you had $1mm what would you invest in? Why? Walk through how X Macro event affects Y and Z output.