AkunaCapital Quantitative Analyst interview experience

The pair coding round had some unusual specifics: things like handling an array/list while keeping ordering, plus building a class that accepted input and maintained the mean, median, and mode. The overall coding prompts didn’t feel wildly complex, but the interaction got intense because the interviewer kept cross-questioning and digging into my reasoning.

I remember the questions themselves being manageable, but the deeper follow-ups required a lot of fundamentals and precision. It wasn’t just “write code and move on”—I had to articulate the logic behind decisions as the discussion went