AAkunaCapital·Quantitative Trader

AkunaCapital Quantitative Trader interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I reached the second round, and the early steps were very coding-and-probability focused.

In the first round I had three coding challenges to finish within an hour. They felt okay at a baseline, but the probability questions were where I struggled; I didn’t pass that segment.

When I looked back at the process, it matched what I’d heard about Akuna’s structure: mental math and sequences show up in the online assessment, there’s also a coding assessment component, and then the first interview round leans into probability topics. For me, the probability interview felt standard but unforgiving—Bayesian-style thinking, expectations, and variance came up, and I remember feeling like

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