Trading Position Interview question

mastershawn · December 11th, 2008, 12:51 am

I recently get a trader assistant interview, I finished the first round and enter the final round interview.I hope anybody on this board could give me some suggestion. What question they normally ask for such position?Thanks in advance!

Diskiss · February 4th, 2009, 8:14 pm

How many lunch can you carry at the same time?How fast does it take you to bring back 8 lattes from Starbucks? ok i'm mean..

MikeNN · February 5th, 2009, 5:48 pm

Mean... yes... Truthful... also partially yes... but unfortunately still the only way to enter the business. good luck.

frolloos · February 6th, 2009, 9:32 am

don't sweat dude, if you don't want to be a coffee & pizza boy you could always work for the buy-side, call a few brokers/traders and tell them you want to trade 1-2 billion notional on the Eurostoxx or S&P (usually enough to make the street nervous), and when they call you back with their 'best' quotes you yell at them and tell them that you've never seen such crappy quotes before and that you could park a 747 between their quote and the winning quote, and slam down the phone. hey, working in banking is fun isn't it?