The first stage is composed of two online assessments on Zyvo. The first one is 80in8, a set of 80 multiple choice mental maths questions to be answered in 8 minutes. It's decently hard, and Zyvo doesn't offer a practice suite (you do have 2 practice questions to get used to the format though). Small note on 80in8, it may not be your run-of-the-mill maths test. Questions usually involve fractions and floating point numbers, you have 4 options, and no time limit for each question (how to pace yourself is up to you, just note that you can't skip and wrong answers detract points). I haven't found a good practice website with fractions, but for floating point numbers I recommend tradermaths.com. Don't really know why they need Quant Researchers to be good at mental maths, I assumed that was the Traders' area of expertise (and the testing website evidently does too, since it kept erroneously referring to my application as "Trader application"). Answered 57/80 questions, probably got around 5 wrong trying to answer quickly, so I estimate a score of 47, but Zyvo doesn't offer detailed reports so can't know for sure. Didn't pass to the second assessment.

The process is hard but exciting. The first online assessment contians bits of coding, quick game skills aswell as logic tests. Overall a good process, but very challenging. D d