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From what I remember: Coding: 1) Sort based on frequency 2) Find pairs from a given array whose diff is k 3) Best Time to Buy and Sell Stocks IV 4) Min. days to complete given jobs, given an upper time limit on how many jobs can be completed in a day 5) Fibonacci-styled questions Prob./Stats: 1) Intuition on Linear Regression 2) Chances of picking a higher card than me if you pick first 3) When to use different prob./stats. distributions and apply them to a given scenario. Finance: 1) Intuition on Volatility and Option Pricing (nothing too in-depth)
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Desk Quantitative Analyst

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

3.9
Dec 9, 2024

From what I remember: Coding: 1) Sort based on frequency 2) Find pairs from a given array whose diff is k 3) Best Time to Buy and Sell Stocks IV 4) Min. days to complete given jobs, given an upper time limit on how many jobs can be completed in a day 5) Fibonacci-styled questions Prob./Stats: 1) Intuition on Linear Regression 2) Chances of picking a higher card than me if you pick first 3) When to use different prob./stats. distributions and apply them to a given scenario. Finance: 1) Intuition on Volatility and Option Pricing (nothing too in-depth)

The assignment was on a weather dataset containing hourly observations from weather stations in London and Paris. The first question was: "Give an example of a serie that follows a normal/gaussian distribution. Describe it and re-normalize. Give an example of a serie that is not normal/gaussian and normalise it."
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Quantitative Researcher

Interviewed at Squarepoint Capital

3.9
Jun 23, 2020

The assignment was on a weather dataset containing hourly observations from weather stations in London and Paris. The first question was: "Give an example of a serie that follows a normal/gaussian distribution. Describe it and re-normalize. Give an example of a serie that is not normal/gaussian and normalise it."

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