MarketAxess Mock Interview

Practice 27 MarketAxess interview questions covering fixed income trading, electronic markets, and fintech innovation.

Question 27 of 27

What programming languages would you consider yourself fluent in?

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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

While this question gives your interviewer insight into the diversity of your programming language experience, they most importantly want to know that you are adaptable and able to learn on the fly if needed. Talk about the different languages that you consider yourself fluent in and, if possible, do as much research into MarketAxess as you can prior to your interview and try to speak to the specific languages that they work with.

Ryan Brunner

Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.

"From the start of college, where software engineering grew into a passion for me, I've become very fluent in Java, JavaScript and C. My current role has me working primarily with C, but I pride myself on my ability and passion to learn new programming languages and would be able to do so if hired for this role with MarketAxess."

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27MarketAxess Interview Questions & Answers

1.Can you think of a situation where raising debt over equity would be beneficial?

2.How would you define what working capital is for a company and what does its measurement mean?

3.The day-to-day life at MarketAxess can be hectic and stressful at times. If hired for this role, how would you keep yourself motivated when working with stressed colleagues and pushy clients?

4.One huge philosophy that we believe in at MarketAxess is professional development. How have you worked to develop yourself professionally throughout your career?

5.As a Trader with MarketAxess, you will be trusted to take a very diverse approach with our clients. How would you explain the limitations of using solely a P/E Ratio approach to purchasing stock to a client?

6.If you were asked to review a colleague's code that they had written, what key things would you look for?

7.If hired to this role here at MarketAxess, what do you see as one initial hurdle you will have to overcome in your first weeks on the job?

8.At MarketAxess, our Financial Analysts have to often work under a tight deadline. Talk about a time you had to work under a tight deadline in the past. How did you handle that situation and what made it a success?

9.If you joined the team here at MarketAxess, how would you build relationships with those that you would be working closely with?

10.What tools of the trade do you find most useful in your work as a Trader?

11.Here at MarketAxess, we are expecting someone with strong leadership skills to take this role. How would you describe your management style?

12.Our clients here at MarketAxess expect top-tier service and products and we will expect you to do just that in this role. Have you ever went the extra mile for a client when it wasn't expected? Why did you do so?

13.If you were having an interaction with a client here at MarketAxess and you weren't able to answer their question or solve their problem on your own, how would you handle that situation?

14.Accuracy is important to us at MarketAxess. Do you always double check or proofread your work?

15.In this role with MarketAxess, we will rely on your organized and methodical approach to provide financial analysis reporting. What does your current reporting process consist of?

16.In Oracle, do you understand what a join is and what the various types of joins are?

17.Think back over your career up to today and tell me about the most difficult day on the job you encountered. What made the day difficult and how did you handle that situation?

18.The software we develop here at MarketAxess requires you to have working knowledge of both privileges and roles within Oracle. Can you talk about your knowledge and experience of both within Oracle?

19.We pride ourselves on our interdepartmental teamwork here at MarketAxess. If hired for this role, what kind of team player could we expect you to be?

20.What do you feel are the primary features and benefits of the Java programming language?

21.At MarketAxess, we pride ourselves on providing the best overall customer experience. Talk about your customer service experience and explain why it will help our clients here.

22.What SDLC models are you familiar in working with?

23.I'm giving you one minute to give me your best pitch on a stock that you would buy or sell right now. Go!

24.List the top 3 skills that you have acquired in your last role.

25.We pride ourselves on teamwork here at MarketAxess and this role in Client Services relies on teamwork. What are the top qualities you would bring to a team based atmosphere here?