AAkunaCapital·Quantitative Researcher

AkunaCapital Quantitative Researcher interview experience

No offer

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Negative

AustraliaPosted Jul 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an initial round of online assessments focused on machine learning concepts and math, I was scheduled for a zoom-style interview.

One of the sessions never started properly because the interviewer didn’t show up, and when I contacted HR, I didn’t get a helpful response. That felt unprofessional and I ended up getting a generic rejection email about a week later.

Another time, the video portion came through VidCruiter and included a fast, “think quickly” style format with a lot of time pressure. I remember not feeling like I had much room to slow down or overthink, and the recorded interview didn’t feel like it was about being polished so much as being responsive under constraints. Overall it left a bad taste, because

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