I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IMC Trading (Boston, MA) in Apr 2014
Interview
I was contacted by HR and was quickly set up with a first round, in person interview. It was a technical interview consisting of a few questions about my resume and why I want to be a trader. Technical questions consisted of analyzing a matlab function and two basic questions about options trading.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Analyzing the matlab function, even though I stated that I had never used matlab before.
It was a tough market making game and a pretty easy brain teaser. The process took a while as well. I think I got nervous since it was my first interview as the difficulty was not too bad.
Have to play some reaction games, I tried for a business course, failed and then also got insta reject on actual application. Reject came in within a day. Was a bit disappointing
Assesments first, than HR/Technical after that a superday. Assesments are a video interview, where you record a video and get to questions to answer. HR interview partially checks whether you would be a personality fit to the company but also assesses some more technical skills. Superday has a quant round, a trader round which are more technical and another HR round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR round is partially personal, partially brain teaser. Superday is problem solving and probability heavy.