[Chicago] Sanity Check

[Brian Curtin]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 22:04, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Where I work (a trading firm), we routinely give tests to prospective
> software developers and quantitative analysts.  For the most part the aim
> is
> to understand how people approach problems, not whether they necessarily
> get
> the correct answer.  (Some of the questions don't have one correct answer
> anyway.)  In fact, we often consider candidates with no previous financial
> industry experience.  In those cases if we ask a finance-oriented question
> we really and truly are interested in seeing how they approach the problem.
>
> The host goes over the test with the candidate, again, with an aim to
> understand how they think.  It's not treated like a 30-minute quiz in your
> college calculus class.
>
> Skip


This type of thing I can get on board with. I didn't get the feeling that
Pete's questions are done in this way, but maybe I was wrong.
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