I've read some basic stuff on the role but I'm still confused.
1) Do people working in market risk work on the trading floor or on the operations/finance floor of a bank?
2) Do people in market risk work longer hours than traders or the same time?
3) How quantitative is the work? How technical is it?
4) Do people in market risk need to go and build relationships with traders in the way that inter dealer brokers do or do you just need to get on well with them?
5) Is market risk suitable for an introvert? I can be social and I can get on well with people and talk but I just need to replenish my social energy.
I'll be applying for summer internships next year. I was previously set on going into big4 assurance but lots of my friends have been talking about banking recently and I have become interested in middle office roles, specifically market risk, recently.