The IMC Trading Interview Process Explained

IMC Trading opens with a timed online math test like its Dutch market-making peers, then moves into options logic and a live trading simulation.

IMC Trading's process runs a timed online math test at the front of the funnel, much like its Dutch market-making peers, followed by interview rounds that test options logic and a trading game that measures how well a candidate manages a position as it accumulates risk.

IMC Trading is an options and ETF market maker with trading floors spanning Amsterdam, Chicago, Sydney and other financial centers, quoting continuous two-sided prices across listed derivatives. Like other options market makers, the firm's profitability depends on pricing risk correctly in the brief window before a position can be hedged, so the interview process filters heavily for calculation speed before it evaluates anything else.

IMC also runs proprietary trading strategies alongside its market-making business, which means some interview tracks lean more toward research and systematic strategy design, but even those tracks share the early quantitative screening with the core trading track.

Most candidates report an online numerical and logical reasoning test as the first stage, followed by one or two interview rounds covering probability, options concepts and behavioral fit. Candidates who clear those rounds are invited to a final assessment day that combines further technical interviews with a live trading simulation.

The assessment day format lets IMC evaluate a candidate across several dimensions in one visit: technical depth in one interview, communication and composure in another, and applied trading judgment in the simulation, rather than spreading those evaluations across separate visits.