AkunaCapital Quantitative Researcher interview experience

Once I was past the earlier steps, I hit a technical screen that felt quite hard—more like the kinds of “quant researcher” probability/statistics drills people associate with textbooks or problem sets. The problems weren’t just plug-and-chug; they were challenging enough that I could feel why they expected quant-level comfort.

Later, the final stages turned even more focused: I got to a point where the last round was essentially a set of difficult probability questions over an hour, and completing that didn’t automatically end it. After finishing, I was asked to go into another probability