There wasn't any difficult question. The HR person was just unprofessional.
Senior Quantitative Research Analyst Interview Questions
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Q: what was a time you faced a challenge and how did you resolve it
Explain singular value decomposition
Typical HR questions; how to structure minvol portfolio; what research ideas Head of research was specialized in qualitative research, so was not capable of judging quantitative skills and did so only based on the school I attended (he said the latter himself); C-level executive literally just talked about himself for most of the interview and made judgements on research ideas after saying he has never heard of the techniques I mentioned; both head of research and C-level executive were ex-Deutsche Bank and clearly came with the associated superiority complex. Probably dodged a bullet there
What is the loss function for Support Vector Machines regression
Previous experience and ways I was prepared for the job description.
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What is the difference between L1 and L2 regularization?
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