AAkunaCapital·Quantitative Trader

AkunaCapital Quantitative Trader interview experience

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SydneyPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Before any interview rounds, I went through a mini-lecture series that covered trading and options basics.

Each lecture had an online quiz tied to it, and the top performers from those quizzes were selected for the interview round. They didn’t spell out exactly how they picked the cutoff, but it was clear the quizzes mattered.

Once I got to the assessment part, the interview itself leaned into trading-style thinking. The math portion depended a lot on speed, and I also remember how market-maker knowledge came up as a helpful context. The questions weren’t just abstract probabilities—they felt tied to how trading games or simulations work.

The video recruiter platform showed up too, and one of

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