AAkunaCapital·Quantitative Researcher

AkunaCapital Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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Chicago, ILPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I made it through a pretty clear sequence: an online assessment, then a math/probability interview, followed by a coding interview, and then a superday.

The online part covered a broad range—data science, statistics, machine learning, mathematics, and general finance knowledge—and it took about two hours.

After that, the interview segment was about an hour and felt more tightly focused on probability. The questions were described as standard probability but they included Bayesian probability along with expectations and variance, and I remember the format being very question-driven rather than theoretical.

I did end up with an offer, and the overall process felt consistent: there weren’t surprise detours, just successive stages where they

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