IMC Trading Hardware Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at IMC Trading.
IMC Trading
Hardware Engineer
Entry Difficult Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Onsite Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding
Recruiter was super slow to respond, made it hard to schedule. They finally set up an in-person interview (I'd have to fly internationally) for the NEXT DAY, and only rescheduled after I pushed back. The interview itself is straightforward but tough. Two 80-min rounds, with two different interviewers each. Lots of whiteboarding. Flying us out is a nice perk, but the way they treated us showed they don't care about our time.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you illustrate with a block diagram how a memory primitive, such as RAM, interacts with its wrapper?
IMC Trading
Hardware Engineer Intern
Intern Easy Neutral experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Onsite Panel Background check
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
So first, there was an online assessment. Then I had three interview rounds. The first was a one-hour technical interview, focusing on my solution to the online assessment. Next was a 3-hour "super day" with four engineers, where they asked standard digital design questions. Lastly, there was a 45-minute behavioral interview.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- If the specifications were to change, how would you modify your design?
- What changes in propagation delay would you expect with different specifications?
- What differences in resource utilization would result from changing the specifications?
IMC Trading
Hardware Engineer
Mid Difficult Positive experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Phone screen Technical screen Onsite Background check
Interview formats
Technical Coding Behavioral
The entire process included an initial application, an aptitude test, then a technical video interview, followed by a phone interview. After that, there were two in-person rounds: a technical interview with members of the hardware development team where I had to answer whiteboarding questions, and a behavioral interview.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you explain the process of an FPGA compiling a block of code?
IMC Trading Hardware Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from IMC Trading interview reports.
“What are the techniques for clock divided by 2?”
Read reports →“How would you create a basic register using SystemVerilog?”
Read reports →“Can you explain FSM encoding techniques?”
Read reports →“Can you illustrate with a block diagram how a memory primitive, such as RAM, interacts with its wrapper?”
Read reports →“What changes in propagation delay would you expect with different specifications?”
Read report →“If the constant to compare increases from 6 to 100, what impact does that have on your machine, and how would you address it, considering implementation in Verilog without excessive coding time?”
Read report →“Given a pie chart and some other information, what percentage of employees contributed to revenue?”
Read report →“What differences in resource utilization would result from changing the specifications?”
Read report →“Can you provide an example of an RTL design question?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 16 IMC Trading interview reports.