Quantitative Research Associate Interview Questions

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Typical phone interview questions are like the ones in green book. Also some question on sharpe ratio of different hypothetical strategies, and dynamic programming for coding (LC medium - hard). Final interview has a mix of technical and behavioural questions
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Quantitative Researcher Intern

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

3.9
Aug 4, 2025

Typical phone interview questions are like the ones in green book. Also some question on sharpe ratio of different hypothetical strategies, and dynamic programming for coding (LC medium - hard). Final interview has a mix of technical and behavioural questions

1) dynamic programming: cansum(int a, list [b,c,d]), return whether a can be a sum of elements in the list; 2) option pricing: explain ito's lemma 3) two players, one bid a k from U(0,1), expectation of draws to bid the opponent
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

3.9
Oct 21, 2023

1) dynamic programming: cansum(int a, list [b,c,d]), return whether a can be a sum of elements in the list; 2) option pricing: explain ito's lemma 3) two players, one bid a k from U(0,1), expectation of draws to bid the opponent

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