Easy Quant Analyst Interview Questions
Everything asked of quant analysts, filtered to the easy end - useful for calibrating where you actually are.
84 questions, 81 of them free to practise right now. The topics that come up most are probability (23), statistics (23), random variables (19), combinatorics (14).
- 1 immediately before 2EasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A compound-interest limit in disguiseEasyCalculusView →
- A dice sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityView →
- A difference of two growing rootsEasyCalculusView →
- A dry weekend, assuming independenceEasyProbabilityView →
- A heart or a king given redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A hundred days of compoundingEasyBrainteasersFinance & DerivativesView →
- A mixed second partial derivativeEasyCalculusView →
- A perfect-power dice sumEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A repeated digit in the PINEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- A three given a sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A two-sigma tail probabilityEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Adjacent faces on two diceEasyProbabilityView →
- All three land in the same halfEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- An even palindromeEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- An integrand with a cornerEasyCalculusView →
- An old man's life in fractionsEasyBrainteasersView →
- Area between a parabola and a lineEasyCalculusView →
- Average after dropping a subgroupEasyStatisticsView →
- Average distance on an intervalEasyRandom VariablesView →
- Average speed over three lapsEasyBrainteasersView →
- BALLOON arrangements bookended by vowelsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Backing out the correlation from portfolio riskEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Bacteria doubling on a clockEasyBrainteasersView →
- Break-even move after a round tripEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Butterfly spread maximum profitEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Chi-square test for a varianceEasyStatisticsView →
- Codes with exactly one vowelEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Coin count past two sigmaEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Committee with both sexesEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Comparing implied vols from two quotesEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Correlation from a summed varianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Correlation of X with X plus YEasyStatisticsView →
- Correlation under rescalingEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Counting arithmetic triplesEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Counting legs at the meetupEasyBrainteasersView →
- Covariance of a chi-square and a ratioEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Distinct-digit numbers using a 7EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Divisible by 2 or 3EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Drawing a matching pair of socksEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Even sum bigger than sevenEasyProbabilityView →
- Expected sets for a favored playerEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Finding the light coinEasyBrainteasersView →
- First success on an even trialEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Hands directly oppositeEasyBrainteasersView →
- How many new hires to lift the averageEasyStatisticsView →
- Landing in the ringEasyProbabilityView →
- Largest possible covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Length of a vector differenceEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Matching a uniform and an exponentialEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Merging two round-robinsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Net P&L of a two-leg book from DV01EasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- No heads in a random number of flipsEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Pairs who swap hatsEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Present value of a deferred growing perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Product divisible by fourEasyProbabilityView →
- R-squared from the sums of squaresEasyStatisticsView →
- R-squared when you duplicate every pointEasyStatisticsView →
- Rank of a matrix productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Rate of change of a triangle's perimeterEasyCalculusView →
- Regressing with zero covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Repeated digit on a plateEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Repricing a bond after a yield jumpEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Sample SD with Bessel's correctionEasyStatisticsView →
- Seating with a gapEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Second moment from varianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Second roll beats the firstEasyProbabilityView →
- Settlement on a pay-fixed FRAEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Sharing your weekday of birthEasyProbabilityView →
- Sharpe of two combined uncorrelated strategiesEasyStatisticsFinance & DerivativesView →
- Shrinking the standard errorEasyStatisticsView →
- Skewness of a Laplace variableEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Spread of a two-card sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Squared payout on even facesEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Standard deviation of a correlated sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Sum of the OLS coefficientsEasyStatisticsView →
- Summing n plus one over two to the nEasyCalculusView →
- The clock that runs fastEasyBrainteasersView →
- The second draw is redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Upper bound on a dry weekendEasyProbabilityView →
- Valuing a level perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Return speed for a target averageEasyBrainteasers Premium
- The first die beats the secondEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Two heads given an even countEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
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