WorldQuant·Quantitative Researcher

WorldQuant Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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South KoreaPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I began with an OA-style online assessment that was long and fairly demanding.

It ran for around three hours with roughly forty questions, and the content mixed basic math with probability-style problems and other quantitative topics. There wasn’t a lot of slack in the timing, so I felt the clock almost from the beginning.

When I got through the assessment to the next step, I moved into interviews where the focus shifted from solving standalone questions to talking through my thinking with researchers. The questions were still quantitative and brain-teaser flavored, and the panel format felt more intense once real people were listening.

This journey felt difficult

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