AAkunaCapital·Quantitative Researcher

AkunaCapital Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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Shanghai, ShanghaiPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I only got through a first major online stage, but it was intense.

I got an automated HackerRank assessment with three problems that I had to finish within about an hour. The questions felt very time limited and quite difficult for me, and by the time I was working through the second and third tasks, the clock was the real opponent.

Because it was so compressed, I couldn’t rely on slow, careful thinking. I pushed to complete the assessment, but it didn’t lead to moving forward to later rounds.

What stood out was how quickly the difficulty surfaced under the one-hour constraint. I walked away knowing I needed both speed and robustness for that format, and I

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