GG-Research·Quantitative Analyst

G-Research Quantitative Analyst interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

London, EnglandPosted Oct 2015 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I came in through a headhunter or recruitment agent, and the first and essentially decisive step was a 90-minute written test.

It covered probabilities, statistics, finance, calculus, and programming. I remember signing a confidentiality agreement before taking it, so I couldn’t get into details afterward.

The frustrating part was how much uncertainty there was going in. I didn’t feel like I had a precise sense of what the test would be like, beyond knowing it had multiple parts and that it covered several domains. I worked hard anyway, but it didn’t click for me in the way the test expected, and I didn’t advance beyond that stage.

In my experience, they didn’t offer much in the way of support or training. The

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