Two Sigma·Quantitative Researcher

Two Sigma Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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Medium

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New York, NYPosted Nov 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path started with an HR phone screen that covered the usual basics, and then I was given a longer online coding competition on HackerRank.

It was a 3-hour test with two medium questions, and then there was a phone interview with a manager.

What stood out to me most wasn’t the technical difficulty—it was the perceived filtering. During the HR portion, I was asked about my PhD advisor, and I remember feeling that the process cared about pedigree signals more than my actual work. The onsite itself ended up being a full day structure with lots of technical interviews, lunch with employees, and another HR interaction.

Across the technical rounds, the questions ranged through probability, statistics, ML, coding, and linear

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