Market Maker Interview Questions for Quant Analysts
The same round is marked differently depending on the seat you are interviewing for. This is the market maker set as it applies to quant analysts.
15 questions, all free to practise. The split is 3 easy, 10 medium, 2 hard. The topics that come up most are calculus (5), brainteasers (4), random variables (3), probability (3).
- A mixed second partial derivativeEasyCalculusView →
- Repeated digit on a plateEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Summing n plus one over two to the nEasyCalculusView →
- Clock hands overlapMediumBrainteasersView →
- Definite integral of x e^x on [0,1]MediumCalculusView →
- Double integral of x + y over the unit squareMediumCalculusView →
- Equivalent continuously-compounded rateMediumFinance & DerivativesView →
- Fox, goose, beans crossingMediumBrainteasersView →
- How many trials to poll a proportionMediumRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Integral by substitution: 2x e^(x^2)MediumCalculusView →
- Mean over variance of a nested uniformMediumProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
- Regression to the meanMediumBrainteasersStatisticsView →
- The missing dollarMediumBrainteasersView →
- A second red ball from the same urnHardProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- When the extremes sum above oneHardProbabilityRandom VariablesView →
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