AkunaCapital Quantitative Analyst interview experience

After that, I went into a technical interview that began with a short, easy prompt and then ramped up. As I kept solving, the interviewer increased the difficulty and eventually got into lower-level design territory, similar to what you might see in other finance coding assessments.

There was also a market-trading flavor earlier in the pipeline in how the tests were described—probability and mental math style content came up in the automated steps—and the overall vibe across the process was that they wanted both correctness and the ability to think through problems as they get harder. In the