The interview process is quite organized. The JD was concise yet informative. The company clearly seeks to hire really smart people, and the quality of roles seem rich. The first round was crisp. It was to discuss work experience, and motivations, strengths etc. There was some cross-questions with respect to the work experience. The role was described as well as someone not on the hiring team can. The round with the hiring manager was rather disappointing. To start with, 30 minutes is too less to understanding what a person with more than a decade of experience can bring, especially if the interviewer had not seen the CV comprehensively before walking in. I was asked a couple of house-keeping questions that are mentioned clearly in the CV, which takes away from the small amount of time available anyway. Even then I have had short early round interviews where senior economists have managed to prod with the right questions to see how you think about macro trading strategy, making the chat thought provoking. However, here the interviewer seemed rather impatient and a bit dismissive. Ironically, it didn't even get to three years of my trading experience, largely because I was long-winded and partly because the interviewer only focused on asking one type of question for just one job role I had on the CV. Best to definitely work on 2 things for this round: first, a very crisp, but complete introduction, second (and important), a comprehensive list of trade ideas implemented in all the past roles. The questions were functional and did not test on ability to generate a trade view. Probably, actual macro trading ability will be tested in later rounds, which may include a case study and some rounds of interviews.