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, 49 of them free to practise right now. 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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