I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IMC Trading (Chicago, IL) in Feb 2017
Interview
First they provides one round of logical reasoning test. After that, you will be asked to do a coding skill test on Codility. I feel the reasoning test is a little time compressing. While the coding test is not that bad.
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Question 1
1. valid password 2. elevator; Those two are just string or array traversal. 3 number of countries. This one could be tackled by dfs
I applied through university. I interviewed at IMC Trading (Chicago, IL)
Interview
for online assessment, there was a question about calculating info from an order book. helps if you know how one works beforehand. only one question and coding preferred in C++ or java.
one technical round and one hr round. technical round was moderately hard. hr round was about your personality, asking about general questions to check if you fit in their workspace.
Coding Challenge, Recruiter Phone Screen, Project Interview, Onsite. Coding Challenge was definitely on the challenging side of those I've taken. They dive deep into your past & current experiences for project interview. Onsite was challenging -- a long problem statement.
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Question 1
Why IMC? Challenging Project? Favorite language feature?