Sales and Trading Interview Questions

“Are there any trades you like at the moment?”

“how many windows are in this building.”

“No difficult questions”

“brainteasers( how many passengers pass from city airport on monday mornings etc etc)
technical (arbitrage, market making etc)”

“Given four number 7 and one number 1, make it equal to 100 using only + - * / and ().
In the presentation, I was given a summary article on market condition. I was then asked to present to a senior…”

“Most questions were fairly straightforward with an emphasis on trying to get you relaxed. Questions were more geared around personality/enthusiasm as opposed to whether you had superior technical…”

“Sell me ITG. Got confused at the start and stuck in the middle but the interviewer was very comforting and made me feel at ease.”

“Many technical questions and brainteasers”

“If you have a chess board and two of the corner squares are removed and then you had dominoes where by each domino filled two squares of the chess board, with these pieces removed could you…”