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Aqr Capital Management Software Engineer Interview Questions

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CodingStart here. 13 questions · ~165 min
Special Numbers SumHard
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Use backtracking to find numbers whose square digits split into parts summing to the number, then sum their squares.

coding challengeDynamic ProgrammingAlgorithmsAqr Capital Management
Zero Rows and ColumnsMedium
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Zero every matrix cell whose row or column contains zero using constant extra space.

ArraysArray ManipulationAlgorithmsAqr Capital Management
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Execution7 questions · ~89 min
Troubleshooting a Technical IssueMedium
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Explain a structured process for diagnosing technical issues, coordinating stakeholders, mitigating risk, and verifying resolution.

error ratealertingfault toleranceAqr Capital Management
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System Design6 questions · ~76 min
Architecture From Resume and HypotheticalsHard
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Explain how you structure resume-based architecture discussions and ambiguous ML system design problems.

ML Rankingsystem designProblem SolvingAqr Capital Management
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SQL & Data Manipulation12 questions + 2 drills · ~172 min
Database Normal FormsMedium
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Explain 1NF through higher normal forms, including functional dependencies, anomalies, and normalization trade-offs.

databasenormalizationdatabase designAqr Capital Management
Top 3 Assets Per SectorHard
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Rank the three highest-returning assets within each sector and month using monthly return aggregation and window ranking.

Window FunctionsDate Functionsfinancial dataAqr Capital Management
Rolling Return and Asset RankingHard
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Calculate 30-day asset returns, daily rankings, and prior-day price comparisons with PostgreSQL window functions.

Window FunctionsLag/LeadDate FunctionsAqr Capital Management
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Pipelines6 questions · ~76 min
Design High-Throughput Event PipelineHard
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Design a real-time event pipeline that can handle millions of events per second with sub-second latency.

data pipelineevent processinglatencyAqr Capital Management
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Behavioral & Leadership3 questions · ~38 min
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More topics3 questions · ~38 min
Java Version DifferencesHard
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Compare Java 1.6 and Java 1.7 across language features, JVM capabilities, libraries, tooling, and compatibility.

Language FeaturesJVM Internalstechnical fundamentalsAqr Capital Management
Deadlock ResolutionHard
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Evaluates your concurrency troubleshooting skills and ability to fix deadlock scenarios.

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