How trading desks test your options intuition
7 min read The options questions trading firms ask, from put-call parity to gamma scalping, and how to reason through them out loud. Read article
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How Tower Research Capital Interviews Its Low-Latency Engineers
6 min read A breakdown of Tower Research Capital’s engineering loop, the C++ and systems questions it leans on, and what the multi-desk Super Day means for candidates. Read article
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How IMC Trading interviews traders and engineers differently
7 min read The IMC Trading interview splits into a trader track built on mental math and market-making games and an engineer track built on low-level C++ and a matching-engine build. Read article
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The probability brainteasers trading desks still ask
6 min read The reroll game, HH versus HT waiting times, the coupon collector, Bayes, and making a market, with the reasoning trading firms actually grade. Read article
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What a market-making interview actually looks like
6 min read A walk through the mock-market rounds, expected-value bets, and mental-math screens that firms like Optiver, SIG, and Jane Street use to hire traders. Read article
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A quant probability cheat sheet that holds up live
6 min read The probability facts and reasoning patterns that come up most in trading interviews, and the setups that trip people up. Read article
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What Optiver’s trading game rounds are really testing for
5 min read Optiver’s trader interview runs from a timed math test to a market-making game, and each round is measuring something specific about how you handle pressure and incomplete information. Read article
