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Tell me about past projects Challenges faced and how you solved them Basic interview brainteasers such as the king's wine cellar (where you have 1000 prisoners and poisoned wine) Walk me through how you would implement XYZ strategy
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Quant Developer

Interviewed at Virtu Financial

4
Oct 30, 2021

Tell me about past projects Challenges faced and how you solved them Basic interview brainteasers such as the king's wine cellar (where you have 1000 prisoners and poisoned wine) Walk me through how you would implement XYZ strategy

- Assessments: Coding (3 questions/48 hrs), Aptitude (1 hr), Psychometric (1/2 hr) - Phone call with HR (standard questions + 2 simple arithmetic problems to test quick thinking) - 2 hr individual analysis task followed by a group task with another candidate, under the guidance of a junior trader. Involved coding up a backtesting structure to determine PnL of a strategy. - Dev interview: simple questions on maps/trees - Quant interview: questions on probability/combinatorics/estimation and a potential market making game - Final interview: with head of trading and head HR
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Graduate Quant Trader Developer (QTD)

Interviewed at Tibra

3.3
May 2, 2023

- Assessments: Coding (3 questions/48 hrs), Aptitude (1 hr), Psychometric (1/2 hr) - Phone call with HR (standard questions + 2 simple arithmetic problems to test quick thinking) - 2 hr individual analysis task followed by a group task with another candidate, under the guidance of a junior trader. Involved coding up a backtesting structure to determine PnL of a strategy. - Dev interview: simple questions on maps/trees - Quant interview: questions on probability/combinatorics/estimation and a potential market making game - Final interview: with head of trading and head HR

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