Find the sharpest quant campuses, then hire from them
Students across India's campuses play Priors every day: rated contests, club battles and trading games. See the quant culture of each college, reach the students you want, and screen them on games that are hard to hand to AI.
Start with a free pilot on a live role.
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IIT Bombay255points - 2
IIT Roorkee178points - 3
IIT Patna122points - 4
IIT Kanpur110points - 5Delhi Technological University42points
Scout
See which campuses and clubs are sharpest, month by month, before you plan a visit.
Reach
Put a contest, a session or your roles in front of students at the colleges you choose.
Screen
One link per candidate: a short round of timed games, no account, nothing to install.
Interview
Meet the shortlist in a shared room: puzzles, market making and your own questions.
Hire
Every answer against the truth, every scorecard, and the pipeline from invited to hired.
Scout clubs before you visit
Know which campuses think like traders, and which clubs are rising, before you plan your season.
- The Club Battle boardEvery college ranked each month by its players' points from rated contests, games and puzzles, with each club's page and the Hall of Fame of past winners.
- A campus report on requestFor the colleges you pick: how active each is on Priors, how its players do in rated contests by rank, its clubs' standing, and the events held there.
- Aggregated, never personalReports describe a campus, not a person. We never share an individual's data without their consent.
Activity on Priors
Rated contests by rank
Club standing
[rank] this month, [titles] Hall of Fame titlesHeld on campus
- Club tournaments
- Rated contests
- Interview sessions
Market making sprint
Hosted with your firm's name, on the games and levels you pick.
- IIT Roorkee
- IIT Kanpur
- IIT Bombay
Reach the students you want
Put your firm in front of the right campuses, not everyone.
- Contests for the colleges you chooseLimit entry to verified emails at chosen colleges, on the games and levels you pick, with a live leaderboard.
- Club tournaments and sessionsRun a tournament with a quant club, or join our sessions on how trading interviews and the job really work, online or on campus.
- Your roles on the job boardOpen roles at trading firms appear on the Priors job board, each next to practice for that firm. Ask us about tracked referrals.
Quant clubs on Priors
Screening rounds you build in minutes
Pick the games, the level and the length for the role, or start from a ready-made bundle.
- One to six games, at any levelEach game easy, medium or hard, 30 seconds to 3 minutes long. Open the round for an hour or up to 30 days.
- Invites your wayPaste a list or load a CSV, and every candidate gets their own link by email. Or share one open link on a careers page or in a campus mail-out.
- Fair for every candidateEveryone gets exactly the same rounds and a practice before each game that doesn't count, and anyone can ask for extra time.
- Results you can act onA ranked board with points per game, each candidate's full report, a pipeline from invited to hired, CSV export and a printable PDF.
Fourteen games across four skills
Try any of them yourself. Assessments also use rounds that appear only in assessments, so nobody can rehearse them in advance.
Reading data
- Guess the correlationReading data at a glance, 60 seconds
- Real or fake?Spotting real randomness, 60 seconds
Markets and trading
- Make a marketFair value and quoting, 90 seconds
- Count and tradeCounting cards and trading on fair value, 60 seconds
- BankrollSizing bets (the Kelly rule), 60 seconds
- Bluff the botJudging a decision by its expected value, not its result, 60 seconds
Probability and odds
- Better betExpected value at a glance, 60 seconds
- RerollExpected value of a decision, 60 seconds
- Higher or lowerJudging calls by their odds, and counting cards, 60 seconds
- Which bag?Updating beliefs on evidence (Bayes), 60 seconds
- BalloonPushing your luck: when to stop, 60 seconds
Speed and patterns
- Sixty-second mathFast, accurate mental math, 60 seconds
- 80 in 8Mental math stamina, 8 minutes
- Next in the sequenceSpotting patterns fast, 60 seconds
For a slower, worked round, there are also 100 probability puzzles with exact answers.
Or start from a bundle
Easier to harderFoundation
Probability, expected value and mental math at a gentle pace.
Standard
Quicker rounds, market making and updating on evidence.
Advanced
Hard, fast rounds across every skill, with bet sizing and tougher markets.
A live room for the interview itself
The candidate and your panel see the same board. Answers stay on your side until you reveal them.
- Puzzles, with hints on cuePush any of the 100 puzzles. The candidate locks a gut guess with a range, then works it out while you reveal hints one at a time.
- Real market makingOpen a market on your own contract, trade at the candidate's quote, add new information midway, and settle with P&L for both sides.
- Your own questionsKeep a question bank with answer keys. The candidate sees only the question; you see the key and whether a number is right.
- Scorecards without groupthinkEach panel member scores five areas privately and sees the others' only after submitting their own. Scheduling, calendar invites and reminders are built in.
Interviewer's contractMake me a market on the sum of three dice.
- Interviewer buys 1 at 11.5
- Interviewer new information: one die shows a 6
- Candidate requotes 12.5 to 14
- Interviewer settles: candidate +1.5
Hard to hand to AI
Built so the score reflects the candidate, not a chatbot or a friend.
- Seconds, not minutesEach decision has a few seconds on a clock kept by our server. Typing a prompt and reading the reply costs more than the round allows.
- Pictures, not textScatter plots and charts arrive as images, so there's no data to copy and paste anywhere.
- Made fresh, kept hiddenRounds are generated on our server as they're played, and answers stay hidden until the round closes. There's nothing to look up beforehand.
- Flagged for your reviewSuspicious patterns are marked on each candidate's result. You clear or uphold every flag before you decide.
Device and network details are kept only as one-way hashes. Webcam snapshots stay off unless you turn them on for a round, and candidates agree first.
Your data, under your control
Kept as long as you choose
Candidate data is deleted after the period you set, from 30 days to two years. Delete any candidate at any time.
Every action logged
Owners see who added members, changed settings, and viewed, exported or deleted candidate data.
Roles for your team
Owners manage the team, hiring managers run roles and rounds, and interviewers see only the interviews they're on.
Only your firm sees it
Your team signs in with work email. Everything is scoped to your firm, and nobody outside it can find it.
Hear it from people who trade
Real quotes from traders and researchers at trading firms.
I particularly liked the feature that allows us to quickly create tournaments for team learning sessions. It makes learning interactive, encourages friendly competition and provides a fun way for colleagues to sharpen their problem-solving and trading skills together. The setup is simple, intuitive and seamless.
Susquehanna International Group (SIG)AnonymousPriors is an engaging platform for developing quantitative trading skills. I particularly like its interactive market-making, probability and correlation exercises.
Alphagrep SecuritiesAnonymousPriors helped strengthen my probability, expected value and market-making fundamentals, which were particularly useful during trading interviews.
QuadeyeAnonymousQuestions firms ask
What's in a campus report?
How active a college is on Priors, how its players do in rated contests by rank, its clubs' standing, and the contests and sessions held there. The Priors team prepares it for the colleges you pick. It's aggregated: we never share an individual's data without their consent.
Can a contest be open to only some colleges?
Yes. Entry can be limited to verified email addresses at the colleges you choose, on the games and levels you pick, with a live leaderboard.
Do candidates need an account?
No. Each candidate gets their own link by email, or you share one open link on a careers page. They play in any browser, on a laptop or phone, with nothing to install.
How long does a screening round take?
You choose: one to six games of 30 seconds to 3 minutes each, with a short practice before each game that doesn't count. Three or four games take about ten minutes.
Can we use our own interview questions?
Yes. Add them to your question bank with an answer key, then push them in the live room. The candidate sees only the question; you see the key and whether a number is right.
Which video tool do interviews use?
Your own: Zoom, Meet or Teams. Paste the link when you schedule. The Priors room carries the shared work alongside the call.
Do you connect to our applicant tracking system?
Not yet. Results export as CSV, and every candidate's report prints or saves as a PDF.
What does it cost?
Start with a free pilot on a live role. We agree pricing with you afterwards, once you've seen the results.
Talk to us
Tell us which campuses or roles you're hiring for. We'll reply within one working day.