Quantitative Associate Interview Questions

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Questions around your experience with Python, optimisation, financial domain knowledge and some Maths-type brainteasers. How many zeros does 100! (factorial) have? Write a function to find the most frequent character in a given string. Find the second largest number in an array.
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Quantitative Developer

Interviewed at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

3.6
May 12, 2025

Questions around your experience with Python, optimisation, financial domain knowledge and some Maths-type brainteasers. How many zeros does 100! (factorial) have? Write a function to find the most frequent character in a given string. Find the second largest number in an array.

if you have a stream of data and you take a specific number of values from the stream and put them into different tables, how would you know if the process is working efficiently? What if there were a lot of missing values? In the Black-Scholes model if the risk free interest rate increases, what happens to the payoff? Does the commodity price increase or decrease and why?
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Quantitative Risk Analyst

Interviewed at CME Group

3.9
Nov 16, 2015

if you have a stream of data and you take a specific number of values from the stream and put them into different tables, how would you know if the process is working efficiently? What if there were a lot of missing values? In the Black-Scholes model if the risk free interest rate increases, what happens to the payoff? Does the commodity price increase or decrease and why?

What is your definition of Risk? Give a statement of the Central Limit Theorem as precise as possible. Write the code of binary search function in C and compute algorithmic complexity, compare with brute force approach.
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Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Bloomberg

4
Feb 29, 2016

What is your definition of Risk? Give a statement of the Central Limit Theorem as precise as possible. Write the code of binary search function in C and compute algorithmic complexity, compare with brute force approach.

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