Programming & DSA Interview Questions for Quant Researchers
Quant Researchers get asked programming & dsa differently from other quant roles - the emphasis shifts with what the job actually does. This is that slice.
25 questions, 10 of them free to practise right now. The split is 2 easy, 17 medium, 6 hard.
- Counting complement pairsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Multiplications saved by Horner's methodEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- A large power, modular orderMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Balanced parenthesesMediumCombinatoricsProgramming & DSAView →
- How much a control variate helpsMediumFinance & DerivativesProgramming & DSAView →
- Multiplications in fast exponentiationMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Rebuilding a tower of ten ringsMediumBrainteasersProgramming & DSAView →
- Sampling an exponential from a uniformMediumRandom VariablesProgramming & DSAView →
- Simulate probability pMediumProbabilityProgramming & DSAView →
- When the naive shuffle is biasedMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Call count of memoized FibonacciMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Climbing stairsMediumCombinatoricsProgramming & DSA Premium
- Euclid's worst-case step countMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Finite-difference stabilityMediumFinance & DerivativesProgramming & DSA Premium
- How explosive is naive Fibonacci?MediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- How many stack outputs?MediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Power iterationMediumLinear AlgebraProgramming & DSA Premium
- Quickselect average complexityMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- When to prefer memoization over tabulationMediumProgramming & DSA Premium
- Absorption in naive floating-point summationHardCalculusProgramming & DSA Premium
- Expected comparisons, from first principlesHardProgramming & DSA Premium
- Median of a streamHardStatisticsProgramming & DSA Premium
- Minimum coins where greedy failsHardProgramming & DSA Premium
- Reservoir samplingHardStatisticsProgramming & DSA Premium
- Two Newton iterations for a square rootHardCalculusProgramming & DSA Premium
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