Options Trading Interview Questions for Quant Developers
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 developers.
17 questions, all free to practise. The split is 7 easy, 10 medium. The topics that come up most are programming & dsa (8), calculus (4), combinatorics (3), linear algebra (3).
- Area between a parabola and a lineEasyCalculusView →
- Hopping rabbit, up to three stepsEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Rank of a matrix productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Slope of a product at a special pointEasyCalculusView →
- Strictly increasing three-digit numbersEasyCombinatoricsView →
- The distance-2 layer of a graphEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- When the colony outgrows its life supportEasyBrainteasersCalculusView →
- Call count of memoized FibonacciMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Climbing stairsMediumCombinatoricsProgramming & DSAView →
- Counting the innermost callsMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Detect a cycle in a linked listMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- How fast the bubble's skin growsMediumCalculusView →
- In-place array rotationMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Leaves of a degree-3 treeMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Rank–nullity dimension countMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- When does the system fail to have a unique solution?MediumLinear AlgebraView →
- When to prefer memoization over tabulationMediumProgramming & DSAView →
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