Easy Hedge Fund Quant Interview Questions
The entry point into hedge fund quant preparation - enough to learn the shape of the round before the difficulty rises.
49 questions, all free to practise. The topics that come up most are statistics (13), finance & derivatives (8), random variables (8), combinatorics (7).
- A divisor of a power of tenEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A hundred days of compoundingEasyBrainteasersFinance & DerivativesView →
- A multiple of 15 in ones and zerosEasyBrainteasersView →
- A ratio of Fibonacci sumsEasyBrainteasersView →
- A two-sigma tail probabilityEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Additions in a naive moving averageEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Age in a square yearEasyBrainteasersView →
- American early exerciseEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- An odd subset with two small elementsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Angle under an orthogonal mapEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Break-even move after a round tripEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Butterfly spread maximum profitEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Cache misses under LRU evictionEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Chi-square test for a varianceEasyStatisticsView →
- Color switches in a drawEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Counting 8-bit stringsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Counting nines to 1000EasyCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Covariance of a chi-square and a ratioEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Covariance of summed Brownian motionsEasyStochastic ProcessesView →
- Determinant after antisymmetrizingEasyProbabilityLinear AlgebraView →
- Even numbers, distinct digitsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Expected cost of a mixed lookup workloadEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- How many new hires to lift the averageEasyStatisticsView →
- Integers that contain a zeroEasyCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Interquartile range of an exponentialEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- MISSISSIPPI with the P's togetherEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Matching a uniform and an exponentialEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Maximum subarray sumEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Net P&L of a two-leg book from DV01EasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Nodes fixed by a group reversalEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Norm after imposing orthogonalityEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Paid a dollar or the drawEasyExpected ValueStatisticsView →
- Parameter values for a singular matrixEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Pooling two independent estimatesEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Posterior from a likelihood ratioEasyConditional Probability & ExpectationStatisticsView →
- R-squared from the sums of squaresEasyStatisticsView →
- Repricing a bond after a yield jumpEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Settlement on a pay-fixed FRAEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Skewness of a Laplace variableEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Solving a linear Diophantine equationEasyBrainteasersView →
- Standard deviation of a correlated sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Sum of cubed eigenvaluesEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Sum of the OLS coefficientsEasyStatisticsView →
- The added babyEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Upper bound on a dry weekendEasyProbabilityView →
- Valuing a level perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Variance of a sum of Brownian motionEasyStochastic ProcessesView →
- Where counting sort places a valueEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Where x squared log x bottoms outEasyCalculusView →
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