Options Trading Interview Questions for Quant Analysts
The same round is marked differently depending on the seat you are interviewing for. This is the options trading set as it applies to quant analysts.
32 questions, 19 of them free to practise right now. The split is 17 easy, 13 medium, 2 hard. The topics that come up most are probability (9), brainteasers (6), random variables (5), statistics (5).
- A dice sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityView →
- A dry weekend, assuming independenceEasyProbabilityView →
- A heart or a king given redEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- A three given a sum divisible by threeEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & ExpectationView →
- Area between a parabola and a lineEasyCalculusView →
- Average speed over three lapsEasyBrainteasersView →
- Backing out the correlation from portfolio riskEasyRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Bacteria doubling on a clockEasyBrainteasersView →
- Expected sets for a favored playerEasyProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- First success on an even trialEasyRandom VariablesExpected ValueView →
- Present value of a deferred growing perpetuityEasyFinance & DerivativesView →
- Rank of a matrix productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Sample SD with Bessel's correctionEasyStatisticsView →
- Shrinking the standard errorEasyStatisticsView →
- Summing n plus one over two to the nEasyCalculusView →
- Filling a pool with the drain openMediumBrainteasersView →
- Three-jug measuringMediumBrainteasersView →
- Distinct toys from seven boxesHardProbabilityExpected ValueView →
- Two random subsets that overlapHardProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Return speed for a target averageEasyBrainteasers Premium
- The first die beats the secondEasyProbabilityConditional Probability & Expectation Premium
- Ants on a stickMediumBrainteasers Premium
- Double integral of x + y over the unit squareMediumCalculus Premium
- Identical balls, no empty boxMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Math books stay togetherMediumCombinatorics Premium
- Prime sumMediumProbability Premium
- Splitting a merged Poisson totalMediumStochastic Processes Premium
- Variance of a sum drawn without replacementMediumRandom Variables Premium
- Variance of an aggregate Poisson totalMediumRandom VariablesStochastic Processes Premium
- When a biased estimator winsMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- When does the system fail to have a unique solution?MediumLinear Algebra Premium
- Why covariance matrices are PSDMediumStatisticsLinear Algebra Premium
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