Jump Trading

Production Engineer Interview Experience - United States

October 9, 2021

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The Python Code Challenge on the Codility website must be passed as the first step. After that, you get to the interview. However, I did not even get that far. They are way too strict on the challenges. It doesn’t make any sense.

Questions

Three Python challenges were given.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Jump Trading Production Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Jump Trading's interview process for their Production Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Jump Trading's Production Engineer interview process in United States.

Jump Trading Work Experiences

An excellent place to work

Production Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: Loads of very talented people to work with. Some other review said high density talent, which is a great way to describe it. Great compensation, especially considering WLB within the industry. Lots of bleeding-edge technology and interesting problems to solve. They have world-class HPC infrastructure and really cool, bespoke hardware. Great culture. Many people have been here for 10+ years, and everyone seems very happy. Very few egomaniacs, especially for a place with so many talented people.

Cons: Tech debt coupled with complex systems with lots of bespoke hardware and software. It's very difficult to really feel completely comfortable and knowledgeable, even if you are very smart and have spent a good amount of time here. Very flat and distributed organization can lead to feeling like there is a lack of direction at times. Not really specific to Jump, but similar to most HFT firms, the compensation and career path can be very unclear.

An excellent place to work

Production Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: Loads of very talented people to work with. Some other review said high density talent, which is a great way to describe it. Great compensation, especially considering WLB within the industry. Lots of bleeding-edge technology and interesting problems to solve. They have world-class HPC infrastructure and really cool, bespoke hardware. Great culture. Many people have been here for 10+ years, and everyone seems very happy. Very few egomaniacs, especially for a place with so many talented people.

Cons: Tech debt coupled with complex systems with lots of bespoke hardware and software. It's very difficult to really feel completely comfortable and knowledgeable, even if you are very smart and have spent a good amount of time here. Very flat and distributed organization can lead to feeling like there is a lack of direction at times. Not really specific to Jump, but similar to most HFT firms, the compensation and career path can be very unclear.

Great Infrastructure, Bad Silos

Production Engineer • Former Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

October 1, 2024

Pros: Well-designed infrastructure, solving problems at scale.

Cons: Silos are a problem with information sharing.

Great Infrastructure, Bad Silos

Production Engineer • Former Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

October 1, 2024

Pros: Well-designed infrastructure, solving problems at scale.

Cons: Silos are a problem with information sharing.

Excellent company and culture

Production Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: Good WLB, food in Chicago office, location.

Cons: Siloed infrastructure versus trading makes information sharing hard.

Excellent company and culture

Production Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: Good WLB, food in Chicago office, location.

Cons: Siloed infrastructure versus trading makes information sharing hard.

An excellent place to work

Production Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: Loads of very talented people to work with. Some other review said high density talent, which is a great way to describe it. Great compensation, especially considering WLB within the industry. Lots of bleeding-edge technology and interesting problems to solve. They have world-class HPC infrastructure and really cool, bespoke hardware. Great culture. Many people have been here for 10+ years, and everyone seems very happy. Very few egomaniacs, especially for a place with so many talented people.

Cons: Tech debt coupled with complex systems with lots of bespoke hardware and software. It's very difficult to really feel completely comfortable and knowledgeable, even if you are very smart and have spent a good amount of time here. Very flat and distributed organization can lead to feeling like there is a lack of direction at times. Not really specific to Jump, but similar to most HFT firms, the compensation and career path can be very unclear.

5.0
An excellent place to work
Production Engineer • Current Employee
Chicago, Illinois, United States
April 19, 2025
Pros: Loads of very talented people to work with. Some other review said high density talent, which is a great way to describe it. Great compensation, especially considering WLB within the industry. Lots of bleeding-edge technology and interesting problems to solve. They have world-class HPC infrastructure and really cool, bespoke hardware. Great culture. Many people have been here for 10+ years, and everyone seems very happy. Very few egomaniacs, especially for a place with so many talented people.
Cons: Tech debt coupled with complex systems with lots of bespoke hardware and software. It's very difficult to really feel completely comfortable and knowledgeable, even if you are very smart and have spent a good amount of time here. Very flat and distributed organization can lead to feeling like there is a lack of direction at times. Not really specific to Jump, but similar to most HFT firms, the compensation and career path can be very unclear.

Great Infrastructure, Bad Silos

Production Engineer • Former Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

October 1, 2024

Pros: Well-designed infrastructure, solving problems at scale.

Cons: Silos are a problem with information sharing.

3.0
Great Infrastructure, Bad Silos
Production Engineer • Former Employee
Chicago, Illinois, United States
October 1, 2024
Pros: Well-designed infrastructure, solving problems at scale.
Cons: Silos are a problem with information sharing.

Excellent company and culture

Production Engineer • Current Employee

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Pros: Good WLB, food in Chicago office, location.

Cons: Siloed infrastructure versus trading makes information sharing hard.

5.0
Excellent company and culture
Production Engineer • Current Employee
Chicago, Illinois, United States
May 29, 2023
Pros: Good WLB, food in Chicago office, location.
Cons: Siloed infrastructure versus trading makes information sharing hard.

Jump Trading Interview Questions

Happy Number

Determine if a number is a 'happy number'. A happy number eventually reaches 1 when replaced by the sum of the squares of its digits, repeating the process until it does.

RecursionHash Table

Permutation Sequence

Given a number n and an integer k, find the kth lexicographical permutation of the sequence 1, 2, ..., n. Essentially, you need to generate the kth permutation without explicitly calculating all the preceding permutations.

ArraysRecursionBacktracking

Subtree of Another Tree

Determine if one binary tree is a subtree of another binary tree. That is, check if the structure and node values of the smaller tree exactly match a portion of the larger tree.

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