WorldQuant·Quantitative Researcher

WorldQuant Quantitative Researcher interview experience

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HardMoscow, MoskvaPosted Apr 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

HR reached out and I did a phone interview that was mostly about my background.

After that, I took an online test that felt very different from familiar standardized assessments—its focus was mathematics with a heavy emphasis on probability theory, and some problems were genuinely hard to approach unless you already knew the underlying method.

Following the exam, I was invited to three interviews. While there were a few fit and background questions, the majority of the conversation was dedicated to solving mathematical and logical problems. Eventually I also had another series of interviews, but at least one round turned out to be especially awkward: I had to solve

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