Flow Traders

Flow Traders publishes two distinct graduate hiring loops, one for trading and one for development, both opening with a CV and cover letter:

• Graduate Trader / Trading Intern: an online numerical test on mental math and sequences, a recruiter interview, an interview with a Trader covering business knowledge and brainteasers, and a final case study led by two senior Traders.
• Graduate Software Development / Trading Operations Engineering: a HackerRank test in C++ or Java, a recruiter interview, a Codepair session with a senior Developer, and a final interview with a Team Lead.

Both loops are short on hops compared with bank graduate schemes, but the live numerical and Codepair stages are unforgiving – weak performance gates the rest of the loop, so candidates running this against other applications cannot stagger preparation across weeks.

Flow Traders publishes four named graduate programs, each with a fixed structure:

• Graduate Trading Program: three-month training across financial products, pricing, proprietary trading systems, simulations, and quantitative classes
• Graduate Quantitative Research: two-month program covering pricing maths, trading classes, and developing automated strategies
• Graduate Trading Operations Engineering Program: three months – two months of training plus a one-month graduation project – introducing DevOps and trading-systems performance
• Graduate Software Development Program: one-year rotation across the C++ or Java teams behind the firm's proprietary trading platform

Internship intake is narrower: Trading interns only, in Amsterdam and New York. Each program runs as a distinct assessed track rather than a converging cohort, so a candidate targeting more than one route applies and interviews twice.

It explicitly does not sponsor visas for interns. For a non-EU candidate applying to the Amsterdam graduate intake, sponsorship is in scope at offer stage – but the Trading internship route is closed as a sponsored stepping-stone, so a candidate relying on conversion via internship needs to plan around that gate.

The firm's franchise is ETF market-making, run from an Amsterdam headquarters with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Milan, Paris, Cluj, Chicago, and Shanghai. For a candidate choosing between offers, the listing is the practical lever: published filings let a graduate compare compensation bands, employee count growth, and trading P&L over time rather than relying on second-hand industry comparables.