Basic questions on options, what a market maker does/how it makes money; two brain teasers; motivational questions.
Quantitative Research Associate Interview Questions
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Research, coding language, portfolio construction, backtesting
Given a dataset of investment analyst sentiment, how would you extract signal? Word problem wrapping a Markov chain stationary distribution.
Explain the Central Limit Theorem to me.
Round 1: 6 OA problems 40 minutes which had probability and linear algebra. Being familiar with matrix manipulation, Poisson PDF, recursion relations is more than enough. Round 2: 30 min CV review and motivation as to why QR rather than doing research in academia. Next 30 minutes: 4 probability/brain-teaser/linear algebra/market making. The probability/brainteaser problems are of style that are seen in dynamic programming i.e. recursive relation but no live coding was asked.
Martingales, probability, Linear Algebra.
Steps tetrahedron, expectations
What is the minimal natural number that ends with digit 4 such that moving its last digit to the first position (i.e. 1234 => 4123) increases it exactly fourfold? Answer:___
Triangle ABC has sides of length 45, 60 and 75. A point X is placed randomly and uniformly inside the triangle. What is the expected value of the sum of perpendicular distance from point X to this triangle’s three sides
The expectation of rolling the dice and get 2 consecutive 6
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