WorldQuant·Quantitative Researcher

WorldQuant Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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Moscow, MoskvaPosted Apr 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My application started with an online test that split into two parts.

The first part had questions that were doable and more calculator-and-calculation focused, but the second part was clearly harder, with each question having its own time limit. Even when I knew the approach, the pacing was the real challenge—it was fast enough that just coming up with the idea felt like it evaporated immediately.

After the online test, I moved into four technical phone interviews. Each phone round focused on math problems and included a handful of questions, and the interviews were strictly technical—no long detours into vague background discussion. They also asked for

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