I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Chicago, IL) in Aug 2020
Interview
This was for the User Interface (C#, Java) role. I applied on July 8 and received the Hackerrank assessment on July 22. The OA consisted of 10 MCQs on CS fundamentals and 3 coding questions which I answered in Java. The coding questions were on String manipulations. After giving the OA, I received an invitation for a phone interview on Aug 24. I gave the interview on Aug 31. I was asked DS and algo questions along with OS and Computer Network questions. I was also asked 1 coding question on base conversion. The interview was supposed to be for 45 mins but got extended to 75 mins. I received a rejection after 1 week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1. Difference between heap and BST and when which is used.
Q2. What is dynamic programming?
Q3. Difference between UDP and TCP.
Q4. Questions on multithreading, lock, unlock, critical section.
Q5. Questions on projects mentioned in the resume.
Q6. Coding question - Given input base, output base and String num, convert number from input base to output base and return string.
I applied online. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL in Aug 2022
Interview
Technical Interview - 30 min questions ask about ML, like time series prediction, a database like how to design database, how to improve database design, and some basic statistics knowledge, any random stuff
I applied online. I interviewed at AKUNA CAPITAL (Chicago, IL) in Jul 2021
Interview
All the interviewers I talked to were disinterested to a point where they were downright rude. With trading being a competitive industry, if they can't even find interviewers with a hint of enthusiasm for their company I'm not sure how they can convince anyone to join them.
OAs are tough, but if you can get most of the tests to pass you'll get a phone screen I think. It might take a long time to schedule, but phone screens have coding (not LC) or just CS fundamentals trivia depending on the team.