I applied online. I interviewed at J.P. Morgan (Johannesburg) in May 2021
Interview
The questions were rather unfair. They didn't give you at 2 chances to answer the questions. You could not replay the interview video before submitting which I found really unfair. Overall, not the best interview I've had.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
World crisis and how it would affect financial markets
Direct super day. Asked the following questions: what is market making? explain how the market maker profits while making a market. What is PCA? how can it be used in factor models?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how market makers profit from their business.
It was really interesting, all the time they leave open to you to be yourself and they focus complete on my manners and how expressive I'm on daily situations, but all the time i was pushed to express the best on me.
More behavioural. They asked 3 easy technical questions in each of the 2 interviews. It was fine, very quick and all over Zoom, each of them lasting around 30 minutes.