HR call, involving experience, please refrain from using Chatgpt to ask and evaluate answers, it seems pretty standard for candidates and such a waste of time, disrespectful, then standard interviews, the company is not doing well, they don't have alpha, they say they use LLMs to trade although they have no experienced people in LLMs, most talented people left
The interview process was generally pretty standard amongst various hedge funds. Asked about various probability and stats questions over the phone. Took a little bit to get an interview scheduled though as a heads up
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Vatic Labs (New York, NY) in June 2025
Interview
There was a phone screen, which was then followed by take home C++ project followed by hacker rank on-site. Recruiter was very friendly, but project was time consuming and technical interviewer was abrasive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
DSA question with heavy emphasis on C++ standard library features, such as unique and shared pointers.