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, 8 of them free to practise right now. 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 rabbitEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- 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 →
- How fast the bubble's skin growsMediumCalculusView →
- Call count of memoized FibonacciMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Climbing stairsMediumCombinatoricsProgramming & DSA Premium
- Counting the innermost callsMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Detect a cycle in a linked listMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- In-place array rotationMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Leaves of a degree-3 treeMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Rank–nullity dimension countMediumLinear Algebra Premium
- When does the system fail to have a unique solution?MediumLinear Algebra Premium
- When to prefer memoization over tabulationMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
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