Susquehanna International Group, Llp (Sig) Business Analyst Interview Guide

We’ve seen SIG evaluate Business Analyst candidates less like generalists and more like people who can operate inside a trading environment without needing the business translated for them. The strongest signal in the candidate experience was the repeated focus on stakeholder requirements in ambiguous situations: not just whether someone could gather inputs, but whether they could structure messy business problems clearly and make sensible tradeoffs. That’s a very different bar from a textbook BA interview, and our candidates report that it becomes obvious quickly when someone is speaking in abstractions instead of business specifics.

A recurring theme is how much weight SIG places on credible product and market understanding. One candidate was pressed on event contracts, including how they would model them and how requirements would be gathered around that product. That tells us the interviewers are looking for more than familiarity with process—they want to hear how you think about the mechanics of a financial product and the implications for users, systems, and stakeholders. In our experience, prior trading or fintech exposure can quietly separate candidates, because it gives you the vocabulary and instincts to answer in a way that feels grounded rather than theoretical.

What makes this process hard is not trickiness, but specificity. The questions were described as practical and detailed, and the people involved seemed to probe until they were confident the candidate could reason through real business scenarios. We’d expect SIG to reward candidates who can connect requirements, product design, and domain context into one coherent answer, especially when the problem is unfamiliar or underspecified.