I was contacted by a third party recruitment company, had an initial call introducing myself. Then they sent me some coding exercises, didn not get 100% pass on all questions.
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I don't remember exactly, but I think it's leetcode questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Wintermute (London, England)
Interview
First call with the recruiter and the first technical round with hiring manager/team lead, A lot of language specific question and what happen under the hood. Interview wasn't bad but never get the reply back
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Around gc in python, generator, decorators, concurrency etc
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Wintermute (London, England) in Nov 2021
Interview
The interview process consisted of a take-home technical exercise and combination of in-person and phone interviews with the hiring team, team manager and senior management.
The technical exercise was interesting and relevant to real work, not just an abstract challenge.
The iterview with the team was a combination of some general chat, one or two easy technical questions and some questions on market-making I was less knowledgeable on but made a stab at. Did not ask anything about algorithms/data strucutres or systems architecture. One of the interviewers made me feel quite uncomforable with their tone. Team dynamic was described as "chaotic" and largely unstructured which was a worrying sign to me.
The other calls with managers was mostly me asking questions to them, felt more like I was interviewing them than the other way around!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What factors influence bid-ask spreads in markets. How do market-makers make a profit.