Easy Systematic & Data-Driven Trading Interview Questions
The entry point into systematic & data-driven trading preparation - enough to learn the shape of the round before the difficulty rises.
55 questions, all free to practise. The topics that come up most are statistics (16), random variables (13), probability (10), linear algebra (10).
- A coin that branches into a dieEasyCombinatoricsExpected ValueView →
- A race between two small-angle ratesEasyCalculusView →
- All the squares on a chessboardEasyCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- An even palindromeEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Angle under an orthogonal mapEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Correlation under rescalingEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Counting complement pairsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Covariance of a chi-square and a ratioEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Covariance of summed Brownian motionsEasyStochastic ProcessesView →
- Determinant after antisymmetrizingEasyProbabilityLinear AlgebraView →
- Determinant from trace and one eigenvalueEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Determinant of a scaled productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Diagonal parameter from a triangular determinantEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Eigenvalues of a 2×2 matrixEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Even numbers, distinct digitsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Even-size, non-empty subsetEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Exactly one clears two-thirdsEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Expected cost of a mixed lookup workloadEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- How many new hires to lift the averageEasyStatisticsView →
- Interquartile range of an exponentialEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Largest eigenvalue after squaringEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Largest possible covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- MISSISSIPPI with the P's togetherEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Maximum of four uniforms in a bandEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Maximum subarray sumEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Multiplications saved by Horner's methodEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- No heads in a random number of flipsEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Norm after imposing orthogonalityEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- 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 →
- R-squared when you duplicate every pointEasyStatisticsView →
- Recover an XOR of two unknownsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Regressing with zero covarianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Repricing a bond after a yield jumpEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Sample SD with Bessel's correctionEasyStatisticsView →
- Second moment from varianceEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Sharing your weekday of birthEasyProbabilityView →
- Sharpe of two combined uncorrelated strategiesEasyStatisticsFinance & DerivativesView →
- Skewness of a Laplace variableEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Standard deviation of a correlated sumEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Strictly increasing three-digit numbersEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Sum of cubed eigenvaluesEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Sum of the OLS coefficientsEasyStatisticsView →
- Three-one strings with matching endpointsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Two ordering constraints at onceEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Two searches, neither hitsEasyRandom VariablesView →
- Upper bound on a dry weekendEasyProbabilityView →
- Valuing a level perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Variance of a sum of Brownian motionEasyStochastic ProcessesView →
- Weighting a fixed sumEasyConditional Probability & ExpectationExpected ValueView →
- Where counting sort places a valueEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Where the arrivals landEasyProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- Where x squared log x bottoms outEasyCalculusView →
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