Arrowstreet Capital Data Scientist Interview Questions

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Guaranteed Matching Pair in Socks

Easy

Use worst-case reasoning to find the minimum number of sock draws needed to guarantee a matching pair.

combinatoricsExpected ValueConditional Probability

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OLS Assumptions and Violations

Medium

Tests understanding of OLS assumptions, inference, and consequences for model validity.

BiasRegressionSupervised Learning

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Ridge and Lasso for Noisy Data

Medium

Tests tradeoffs between bias-variance, regularization, and interpretability for noisy signals.

Bias-Variance TradeoffRegularizationRegression

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Pitfalls in Financial A/B Tests

Hard

Tests awareness of bias, leakage, and statistical pitfalls specific to trading and portfolio decisions.

Network InterferenceNovelty EffectSample Ratio Mismatch

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SQL Rank Top 3 Per Region

Medium

Tests window function mastery and correct ranking logic for region-level performance reporting.

Window FunctionsRankingAggregations

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Define Feature Success Metrics

Medium

Framework for choosing a feature's primary success metric and guardrails before launch.

MetricsFeature PrioritizationProduct Vision

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