# Breaking Into Wall Street: Tech Interview Guides (2026)

Source: https://www.techinterview.org/wall-street/
Updated: 2026-07-03 · techinterview.org

investment banks

Breaking Into Wall StreetTech and strats interviews at the bulge brackets run their own way: online assessments, Superdays, and comp that works differently than big tech. One guide per bank.

**15** bank guidesAn interview loop: screen, onsite rounds, debriefscreencodingdesignbehav.debriefoffer4 to 6 rounds, one debrief[G**Goldman Sachs**How Goldman Sachs runs its software engineer and strats interviews in 2026, from the HackerRank…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/goldman-sachs/)[J**JPMorgan Chase**How JPMorgan's technology interview actually runs in 2026, what engineers and strats get asked, and…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/jpmorgan/)[M**Morgan Stanley**How Morgan Stanley runs its technology interviews for engineers and strats, what they ask, what…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/morgan-stanley/)[B**Bank of America / BofA Securities**Bank of America and BofA Securities hire through a multi-stage process: an online application, a…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/bank-of-america-bofa-securities-interview-guide/)[C**Citi**Citi's 2026 technology interviews pair standard data-structures-and-algorithms rounds with domain questions about Global Markets systems…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/citi-interview-guide/)[B**Barclays**What Barclays actually asks software engineers and strats candidates, how the online assessment and Superday…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/barclays/)[D**Deutsche Bank**Deutsche Bank's tech interview weighs practical engineering for regulated trading and banking systems more than…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/deutsche-bank-interview-guide/)[U**UBS**UBS interviews test wealth-management depth, cultural fit, and how you'd perform inside the world's largest…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/ubs-interview-guide/)[W**Wells Fargo**Wells Fargo's tech interviews weight coding, system design, and computer-science fundamentals about evenly with behavioral…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/wells-fargo-interview-guide/)[R**RBC Capital Markets**How RBC Capital Markets runs its technology interview for software engineers and strats, what the…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/rbc-capital-markets/)[H**HSBC**How HSBC actually runs its technology interviews across London, Hong Kong, and its engineering hubs,…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/hsbc/)[N**Nomura**How Nomura runs its technology interviews across London, Tokyo, and New York, what it asks…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/nomura/)[J**Jefferies**How Jefferies runs its software and strats interviews in New York, what the online assessment…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/jefferies/)[E**Evercore**Evercore's interview process is known for its intensity and technical depth, running through several rounds…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/evercore-interview-guide/)[L**Lazard**Lazard hires through several interview rounds that weigh technical fluency in M&A and restructuring at…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/lazard-interview-guide/)
## Quant funds, HFT and prop trading
quant & prop trading

Interview guides for the quant, HFT, and prop-trading firms — Jane Street, Citadel, Two Sigma, HRT, Optiver and more. Mental math, probability, trading games, and low-latency systems.

[A**Akuna Capital**Akuna Capital's interviews test quantitative instinct for options market making through timed mental-math and probability…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/akuna-capital-interview-guide/)[A**AQR Capital Management**AQR's interview process is built around quantitative depth: expect probability and statistics problems, mental math,…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/aqr-capital-management-interview-guide/)[B**Belvedere Trading**Belvedere Trading is a Chicago-founded options market maker that trades equity index, fixed income, and…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/belvedere-trading-interview-guide/)[B**Bridgewater Associates**Bridgewater's interview process weighs cultural fit as heavily as raw skill, so expect rounds structured…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/bridgewater-associates-interview-guide/)[C**Chicago Trading Company (CTC)**Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a 30-year-old proprietary options market-making firm that hires undergrads into…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/chicago-trading-company-interview-guide/)[C**Citadel (Hedge Fund)**Citadel runs one of the most selective interview processes in finance, screening for elite quantitative…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/citadel-hedge-fund-interview-guide/)[C**Citadel Securities**related dataOn our Quant & HFT Firm Interview Difficulty Index, Citadel Securities ranks 6th of…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/citadel-securities/)[D**D. E. Shaw**D. E. Shaw runs one of the most selective interview processes in finance, testing raw…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/de-shaw/)[D**DRW**DRW's interview process centers on probability, fast mental math, and market-making games, followed by role-specific…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/drw-interview-guide/)[F**Flow Traders**related dataOn our Quant & HFT Firm Interview Difficulty Index, Flow Traders ranks 2nd of…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/flow-traders-interview-guide/)[G**GTS**GTS (Global Trading Systems) is one of the largest electronic market makers in the world…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/gts-interview-guide/)[H**Hudson River Trading**Hudson River Trading's software engineering interview centers on competitive-programming-style algorithms, low-latency systems knowledge, and probability…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/hudson-river-trading/)[I**IMC Trading**related dataOn our Quant & HFT Firm Interview Difficulty Index, IMC Trading ranks 4th of…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/imc-trading-interview-guide/)[J**Jane Street**related dataOn our Quant & HFT Firm Interview Difficulty Index, Jane Street ranks 1st of…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/jane-street/)[J**Jump Trading**Jump Trading's interview tests raw problem-solving speed over memorized patterns — expect probability puzzles, mental-math…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/jump-trading/)[M**Millennium Management**Millennium hires people who can produce risk-adjusted returns inside a pod structure, so its interviews…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/millennium-management-interview-guide/)[N**NK Securities**NK Securities Research is a Gurugram-based high-frequency trading firm that recruits heavily from IITs and…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/nk-securities-interview-guide/)[O**Optiver**Optiver's interview measures how fast and accurately you handle mental arithmetic, probability, and expected-value reasoning,…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/optiver-interview-guide/)[P**PEAK6**PEAK6 is a Chicago-founded options trading firm that also runs a fintech venture arm, which…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/peak6-interview-guide/)[P**Point72**Getting hired at Point72 means clearing a multi-round process built around a live investment pitch…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/point72-interview-guide/)[R**Renaissance Technologies**Renaissance Technologies hires almost entirely from academia—PhDs in mathematics, physics, statistics, and computer science—and screens…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/renaissance-technologies-interview-guide/)[S**SIG (Susquehanna)**The SIG (Susquehanna) interview tests how you make decisions under uncertainty, not how you code…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/sig-susquehanna-interview-guide/)[T**Tower Research Capital**Tower Research Capital interviews test two things at once: whether you can reason quantitatively and…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/tower-research-capital-interview-guide/)[T**Two Sigma**related dataOn our Quant & HFT Firm Interview Difficulty Index, Two Sigma ranks 11th of…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/two-sigma/)[V**Valkyrie Trading**Valkyrie Trading is a Chicago-based proprietary trading firm, founded in 2011, that trades only its…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/valkyrie-trading-interview-guide/)[V**Virtu Financial**Virtu Financial interviews test quantitative reasoning and market-structure judgment under time pressure, with the mix…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/virtu-financial-interview-guide/)[W**Wolverine Trading**Wolverine Trading is a Chicago-founded options market maker (1994) that also runs a broker-dealer execution…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/wolverine-trading-interview-guide/)[X**XTX Markets**related dataOn our Quant & HFT Firm Interview Difficulty Index, XTX Markets ranks 5th of…](https://www.techinterview.org/companies/xtx-markets-interview-guide/)