AAkunaCapital·Quantitative Researcher

AkunaCapital Quantitative Researcher interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Chicago, ILPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a resume screen and then quickly moved into a technical online assessment with math-competition style questions.

After that, there was a first technical round followed by a final technical round.

The final round was clearly the most important part. I managed to make it there, but I botched the last question, and that was enough that I never felt fully confident about whether I’d be considered afterward. I didn’t get clarity on whether there was a behavioral component at the very end after the final technical segment, but the timing made it feel like it was primarily a technical stop.

I didn’t receive the offer. Honestly, getting to the end made it feel like the process was winnable, but the last

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