GG-Research·Quantitative Researcher

G-Research Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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FrancePosted Sep 2019 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey started with a first video interview, then a 90-minute quantitative test that combined math, stats, and coding.

I followed it up with a second video interview. After those three stages, they told me I hadn’t performed well enough to continue.

The overall difficulty felt high, and what caught me off guard was how strongly they valued speed on relatively simple math and coding tasks—things that felt more like high-school or math-olympiad style tricks than research-level problem solving. My background was academic, and I found it a bit mismatched with how I usually work: spending time wrestling with hard problems over longer stretches to get reliable results.

In the technical interview parts, I was

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