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AKUNA CAPITAL Data Scientist Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a AKUNA CAPITAL Data Scientist interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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Statistics & ProbabilityStart here. 8 questions · ~64 min
Moment Generating Function for NormalMedium

Tests your probability fundamentals and ability to derive MGFs analytically.

DistributionsBayesian ReasoningmodelingAKUNA CAPITAL
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Machine Learning3 questions · ~24 min
Time-Series Cross-Validation Without LeakageHard

Tests your ability to design leakage-free evaluation for models trained on market time series.

Cross-ValidationBias-Variance TradeoffModel EvaluationAKUNA CAPITAL
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Product Sense4 questions · ~32 min
Metric Framework for Prediction-Market FeaturesHard

Tests your ability to build a metrics hierarchy that drives model and product outcomes.

MetricsUser NeedsProduct VisionAKUNA CAPITAL
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Behavioral & Leadership9 questions · ~72 min
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More topics7 questions · ~56 min
Define Metrics for a Customer TestHard

Define the primary metric, guardrails, and power for a customer-facing A/B test before deciding whether to ship.

ExperimentationGuardrail MetricsA/B TestingAKUNA CAPITAL
Diagnose KPI Drop After ReleaseMedium

Diagnose a post-release KPI drop by separating instrumentation issues from real behavior changes and tracing the problem through the metric hierarchy.

KPILeading IndicatorsDiagnosisAKUNA CAPITAL
SQL Top Contracts by Daily ReturnMedium

Tests your SQL skills for partitioning by time and ranking strategies by performance.

Window FunctionsRankingGroup ByAKUNA CAPITAL
AUC-ROC vs Precision-Recall for ImbalanceMedium

Tests your model evaluation judgment under class imbalance and metric selection skills.

PrecisionAUC-ROCRecallAKUNA CAPITAL
Model for Illiquid Prediction MarketsHard

Tests your modeling approach for sparse/low-signal data typical of illiquid contracts.

Cold StartFeature StoreModel ServingAKUNA CAPITAL
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