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Updated May 17, 2022
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Ban Som Phone
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InterviewI applied online. I interviewed at CME Group (Ban Som Phone)
30 interview/screen with HR rep. Very high level questions relating to the job. Followed up 2 weeks after and never got a response. Ghosted! Unfortunately another company that does not respect interviewees taking the time.
Interview Questions
- Are you familiar with x, y, and z
- What are your salary expectations
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Bangalore
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InterviewI applied through a staffing agency. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at CME Group (Bangalore) in Apr 2022
Got contacted through a third party HR for Senior Quant Risk Development Associate engineer post in Bangalore. After resume got shortlisted, had 2 technical rounds. Would say, the interview is medium to difficult. c++ questions were asked, If you are good with basics, and advanced features, you will get it through.
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- 1) Implement user defined shared pointer 2) Print vector without using for loop 3) Question based upon copy constructor. What happens if the original pointer moves out of scope 4) Data structure used to implement VTable
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Anonymous Employee in London, England
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InterviewI applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at CME Group (London, England) in Apr 2022
There were 3 interviews. First one was over zoom for an hour with the director. The other two were in person with members of the optimisation team. Very nice and relaxed interviews - the team were very welcoming.
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- Basic competency questions Knowledge of the markets Technicals such as IR swaps etc.
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
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InterviewI applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at CME Group
2 rounds of interviews. Overall not many technical questions. Each round with a different member of the team. First-round was a phone interview. The second round was a zoom interview.
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- Why CME Group? What do you know about futures? LIBOR vs SOFR
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InterviewI applied online. I interviewed at CME Group
The process was really easy! Interviewers we’re lovely and made the whole process enjoyable. I would definitely interview with them again. Overall a great process for anyone who doesn’t like interviews
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- Where do I see myself in 5 years
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Anonymous Employee
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InterviewI interviewed at CME Group
Well organized and perfect!!! pretty intense. Tough.. very technical . lengthy 3:30 hrs with 6 interviewer in a room. Just one glass of water :) Lot of practical questions .
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- can't disclose ... Company policy
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
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InterviewI interviewed at CME Group
I advanced to the first coding interview and the problems were super easy but I did not make it to a phone interview for some reason. They used hirevue so it was asynchronous and I enjoyed that flexibility. Oh well!
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- There was a palindrome coding question .
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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Chicago, IL
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InterviewI applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at CME Group (Chicago, IL) in Jan 2022
Was offered final round interview and when asked for availability, recruiting team chose furthest date possible that I was available for. 2 days from interview I received an email saying that the final round interview was cancelled with no reason behind why it was cancelled.
Interview Questions
- Built methods for a basic BST ie. insert, delete, search, check if BST is valid(left is less, right is greater) and check for duplicates in tree.
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Anonymous Employee
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InterviewI interviewed at CME Group
Quite drawn out over a long process but okay communication in between. Didn’t always appear HR had clear direction/ authority. Got to meet senior people quite early on in interview process
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- Mental arithmetic decimal multiplication questions
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Anonymous Interview Candidate
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InterviewI interviewed at CME Group
Technical Phone Screening, then discussion with the hiring manager a few days later. Screening was very basic and discussion with manager asked about my past roles. That was the overall process I went through
Interview Questions
- Why CME? What projects have you worked on in the past?
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