ETF Trading Interview Questions for Quant Analysts
The same round is marked differently depending on the seat you are interviewing for. This is the etf trading set as it applies to quant analysts.
25 questions, all free to practise. The split is 14 easy, 11 medium. The topics that come up most are probability (6), random variables (5), brainteasers (4), combinatorics (4).
- A heart or a king given redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Adjacent faces on two diceEasyProbabilityView →
- All three land in the same halfEasyProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- An old man's life in fractionsEasyBrainteasersView →
- BALLOON arrangements bookended by vowelsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Backing out the correlation from portfolio riskEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Coin count past two sigmaEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Counting legs at the meetupEasyBrainteasersView →
- Drawing a matching pair of socksEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Expected sets for a favored playerEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Finding the light coinEasyBrainteasersView →
- Rate of change of a triangle's perimeterEasyCalculusView →
- Squared payout on even facesEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- The second draw is redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Arbitraging a coupon bond against zerosMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Delta-hedge a two-leg option bookMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Empirical rule between two scoresMediumStatisticsView →
- Filling a pool with the drain openMediumBrainteasersView →
- Keeping a couple togetherMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Length of a projectionMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Paths dodging a closed intersectionMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Smallest value of a quadratic formMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Splitting a merged Poisson totalMediumStochastic ProcessesView →
- Two-sided p-value of a mean testMediumStatisticsView →
- Variance of a sum drawn without replacementMediumRandom VariablesView →
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