Quantitative Analyst Interview Questions

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first question - let's play a game where you have ten chips, and you want to split them up into stacks such that you want to maximize your score, which is the product of the size of each stack. what's the best you can do with 10? what about 100 chips? what about N chips arbitrarily large?
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Quantitative Trading Intern

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Feb 13, 2024

first question - let's play a game where you have ten chips, and you want to split them up into stacks such that you want to maximize your score, which is the product of the size of each stack. what's the best you can do with 10? what about 100 chips? what about N chips arbitrarily large?

Two players each roll a dice. They each win if their number is higher than the other, but they are not obligated to bet. If the first person declines the bet, that round ends. The second person knows whether the first person made a bet or not. Which player has a higher payout?
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Quantitative Trader

Interviewed at Jane Street

4.4
Sep 21, 2024

Two players each roll a dice. They each win if their number is higher than the other, but they are not obligated to bet. If the first person declines the bet, that round ends. The second person knows whether the first person made a bet or not. Which player has a higher payout?

tested knowledge about the etf, index industry. some questions about programming concepts and related to the coding test. Also some questions about understanding rebalancing, complexity of building indizes. many questions about the previous experience to test if i actually know what i was doing. not many behaviorals, few personality/ team fit questions in the last interview with hiring managers
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Junior Quantitative Developer

Interviewed at Solactive

3.5
Jul 13, 2020

tested knowledge about the etf, index industry. some questions about programming concepts and related to the coding test. Also some questions about understanding rebalancing, complexity of building indizes. many questions about the previous experience to test if i actually know what i was doing. not many behaviorals, few personality/ team fit questions in the last interview with hiring managers

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