ION TRADING Interview Experience for Technical Analyst

Candidate Information:

• I am a final year engineering undergraduate student studying computer science and engineering from IPU, Delhi.

Overview of Interview Process:

Initial Screening

• 1st, there was shortlisting based on 10,12th marks and cgpa, above 75%.
• 2nd, there was an aptitude test consisting of 95 MCQ questions to be completed in 120 minutes. Topics included: Linux, SQL, OS, DBMS, CN ,OOPS, Quant aptitude, Logical Aptitude,, Case study type questions, English RC and situational type questions. I got shortlisted for the interview.

Technical Round

• Duration:1hr
• Mode:Online[MS-Teams]
• Interview qns:
• Explain red colour to a blind person,
• 2 puzzles:Monty Hall problem from gfg and another regarding a person had covid and met 4 persons in integer values of hrs, something of that sort.
• OOPS: Polymorphism, OS:Deadlock , JDK,JRE,JVM , Hashmap and hashtable, is python an object oriented language, one SQL question based on update command
• 1 roleplay of a real work of a technical analyst wherein a client had an issue and had to come up with the solution.
• i got rejected

Post-Interview Reflections:

• I spoke too fast was the feedback from the interviewer
• Could have done better in the roleplay round.
• Interviewers were calm but not that lenient, even though most of my answers were right , if u fumbled in 1-2 sections they would reject.

Additional Information:

• total 6 rounds are there, each round is an elimination round.

Closing Note:

• Prepare core subjects well, they do look at ur skills section so prepare that well as well, puzzles is luck, prepare some case studies as well 1 or 2, All the best!!