WorldQuant·Quantitative Researcher

WorldQuant Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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RussiaPosted May 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process began with a fairly long online test—forty questions—where I had to move quickly, with up to about six minutes per question and only a calculator available.

The test leaned heavily on probability and statistics, including things like expectation calculations, and it also mixed in pseudocode-style questions where you had to predict what a variable would become after code ran. I expected it to be mostly probability, but I also saw combinatorics and more theoretical math.

Later, I went through interviews that were technical but also oddly creative. In my phone and on-site experience, the questions included brain-teaser style scenarios and elements of basic finance knowledge. What surprised me most was a contrived situation that felt intentionally

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