Hard Hedge Fund Quant Interview Questions
If the standard hedge fund quant set feels comfortable, this is the calibration check.
75 questions, all free to practise. The topics that come up most are probability (35), combinatorics (21), stochastic processes (19), brainteasers (16).
- A Fibonacci power sumHardBrainteasersView →
- A function minus its derivativeHardCalculusView →
- A half-plane, given positiveHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- A second red ball from the same urnHardProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A three-way race to the first headHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- A void suit in bridgeHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Ages from product and sumHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Amoeba extinctionHardProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- An arithmetic-geometric seriesHardCalculusView →
- Balls into bowls, three eachHardCombinatoricsView →
- Best-of-seven underdogHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Blue-eyed islandersHardBrainteasersView →
- Bluffing frequency in pokerHardProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Branching process extinction (critical)HardProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- Branching process extinction (supercritical)HardProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- Connecting noodlesHardProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Counting fives before a four and a sixHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Counting two-pair handsHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Covariance of X with Y squaredHardRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Covariance with a lognormal childHardConditional Probability & ExpectationRandom VariablesView →
- Dealing until kings or a king-and-aceHardCombinatoricsExpected ValueView →
- Defective stack of coinsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Deriving the first-price shading factorHardProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Domino tilings of a 3×8 gridHardCombinatoricsView →
- Drunk man on a bridgeHardExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Everyone gets one of eachHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Exactly one pairHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Expected flips for HHHHardExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Expected flips for HTHHardExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Expected revisits of the start stateHardExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Filling three bins from a coin flipHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Four heads in a rowHardExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Guessing cards from a known pileHardProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- HTH before HHTHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Handshakes at a dinner partyHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Hats in a lineHardBrainteasersView →
- Laplace transform of a Brownian exit timeHardStochastic ProcessesView →
- Making a power of Brownian motion a martingaleHardStochastic ProcessesView →
- Mean of a mean-reverting processHardStochastic ProcessesFinance & DerivativesView →
- Median of a streamHardStatisticsProgramming & DSAView →
- Minimum coins where greedy failsHardProgramming & DSAView →
- More coins, more heads?HardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- One of each face before the two of heartsHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Order statistics are BetaHardRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Pirate gameHardMarket Making & Betting GamesView →
- Pricing an inverse floaterHardFinance & DerivativesView →
- Prisoners and the boxesHardProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Quadratic variation of a scaled Itô integralHardCalculusStochastic ProcessesView →
- Reflected paths ending below the levelHardProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- Reflecting wall first-passage timeHardExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
- Rotations divisible by 37HardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Second moment of a Gaussian-kernel stochastic integralHardCalculusStochastic ProcessesView →
- Seven seated in age orderHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Smallest number with digit product 10000HardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Sums of fours and fivesHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- The all-pay auctionHardProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- The boy born on a TuesdayHardProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- The drunk passengerHardProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- The frog's single leftward hopHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- The leap-frog's favorite landing spotHardProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- The number with no new digitsHardBrainteasersView →
- The snow plowHardCalculusView →
- The survivor in the circleHardBrainteasersView →
- Three first-heads in non-decreasing orderHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Triangle from three independent sticksHardProbabilityCalculusView →
- Triangle that swallows the centerHardProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Triangle with equal side sumsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Twelve balls, one oddHardBrainteasersView →
- Two Brownian values, both positiveHardProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- Two eggs, 100 floorsHardBrainteasersView →
- Two random subsets that overlapHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Variance under random parametersHardRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- When a power of the process is a submartingaleHardProbabilityStochastic ProcessesView →
- When a uniform ratio rounds to a squareHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- World Series bettingHardExpected ValueStochastic ProcessesView →
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