Brainteasers Questions for Hedge Fund Quant Interviews
A hedge fund quant round does not test brainteasers the way a textbook does. This set is the overlap - the brainteasers questions that actually turn up in this format.
39 questions, all free to practise. The split is 7 easy, 16 medium, 16 hard.
- A hundred days of compoundingEasyBrainteasersFinance & DerivativesView →
- A multiple of 15 in ones and zerosEasyBrainteasersView →
- A ratio of Fibonacci sumsEasyBrainteasersView →
- Age in a square yearEasyBrainteasersView →
- Counting nines to 1000EasyCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Integers that contain a zeroEasyCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Solving a linear Diophantine equationEasyBrainteasersView →
- 25 horses, 5 tracksMediumBrainteasersView →
- Adults before the busMediumBrainteasersView →
- Age a fraction of the birth yearMediumBrainteasersView →
- Average salary, kept privateMediumBrainteasersStatisticsView →
- Distinct die labelingsMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Last two digits of a powerMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Odd multiples of threeMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- One hundred animals for a thousand dollarsMediumBrainteasersView →
- Painted cube, one face showingMediumProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Regions from ten linesMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Smallest simulable probabilityMediumProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Summing digits to a millionMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Three mislabeled jarsMediumBrainteasersView →
- Three-four-five in Pascal's triangleMediumCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Two trains and a flyMediumBrainteasersView →
- Weighing 1 to 40MediumBrainteasersView →
- A Fibonacci power sumHardBrainteasersView →
- Ages from product and sumHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Blue-eyed islandersHardBrainteasersView →
- Defective stack of coinsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Handshakes at a dinner partyHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Hats in a lineHardBrainteasersView →
- Prisoners and the boxesHardProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Rotations divisible by 37HardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Smallest number with digit product 10000HardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Sums of fours and fivesHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- The number with no new digitsHardBrainteasersView →
- The survivor in the circleHardBrainteasersView →
- Triangle that swallows the centerHardProbabilityBrainteasersView →
- Triangle with equal side sumsHardCombinatoricsBrainteasersView →
- Twelve balls, one oddHardBrainteasersView →
- Two eggs, 100 floorsHardBrainteasersView →
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