Maven Securities

The firm states it aims to respond within two weeks of completing the online assessment, and candidates who are unsuccessful can re-apply after two years. The early assessments are quantitative and timed, so they reward preparation in mental maths and probability well before any interview. The assessment day is an in-office block, which for a candidate running several trading-firm processes at once is the scheduling constraint to plan around.

Its published programmes include:

• Summer Trader Internship: a 9-week options market-making programme (London, Amsterdam, Chicago) for penultimate-year students, with strong interns considered for the Graduate Trader Programme
• Summer Software Developer Internship (London)
• Graduate Trader Programme (Amsterdam, Chicago) and Graduate Developer Programme (Chicago)
• Quant Researcher graduate programme (London, Chicago)
• Women in Trading and Women in Tech Spring Week programmes (London)

The internship is an explicit feeder to the graduate desk, so the summer programme is effectively the main route to a full-time trading seat, and a candidate is committing to a track and an office at the application stage rather than later.

For an international student this is a gate that falls before the application itself: the summer internships in London, Amsterdam and Chicago are open only to those who already hold local work rights, while the graduate programmes are reachable with sponsorship, so the internship-to-graduate pipeline is not automatically available to someone who would need a visa for the internship.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, it runs trading and technology teams from offices in Amsterdam and Chicago as well. Its early-career tracks map directly onto those divisions, options market-making for traders, systematic quant research, and software engineering. The practical implication for an applicant is that Maven hires onto specific strategy desks rather than into a general rotational scheme, so quantitative speed in probability and mental maths, not finance coursework, is the signal its selection process is built to test.