Trading Aptitude Tests Interview Questions for Quant Developers
The same round is marked differently depending on the seat you are interviewing for. This is the trading aptitude tests set as it applies to quant developers.
38 questions, all free to practise. The split is 25 easy, 13 medium. The topics that come up most are programming & dsa (16), combinatorics (7), linear algebra (6), calculus (5).
- A difference of two growing rootsEasyCalculusView →
- Area between a parabola and a lineEasyCalculusView →
- BALLOON arrangements bookended by vowelsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Codes with exactly one vowelEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Depth of a key in a BSTEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Divisible by neither 2 nor 3EasyCombinatoricsView →
- Grouping anagramsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Handshakes across two groupsEasyCombinatoricsView →
- Hopping rabbit, up to three stepsEasyProbabilityCombinatoricsView →
- Iteration count of a guarded nested loopEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Length of a vector differenceEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Median across two sorted arraysEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Multiply by a constant with shiftsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Nodes fixed by a group reversalEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Numbers with exactly two set bitsEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Peak depth times group count of a bracket scanEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Rank of a matrix productEasyLinear AlgebraView →
- Smallest array forcing 7 probesEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- Smallest multiple of 77 past 700000EasyBrainteasersView →
- Subsets containing one element but not anotherEasyCombinatoricsView →
- The distance-2 layer of a graphEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- The peak of a decaying pulseEasyCalculusView →
- Three switches, one bulbEasyBrainteasersView →
- When the colony outgrows its life supportEasyBrainteasersCalculusView →
- Writes in an in-place dedupEasyProgramming & DSAView →
- 1000 bottles, one poisonedMediumBrainteasersView →
- A family clustered at a round tableMediumCombinatoricsView →
- Cheapest way to chain three productsMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Common divisors of the squaresMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- How many stack outputs?MediumProgramming & DSAView →
- How often the smallest disk movesMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Leaves of a degree-3 treeMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Length of a projectionMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Smallest value of a quadratic formMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- The costliest mergeMediumProgramming & DSAView →
- Tower of Hanoi, adjacent moves onlyMediumBrainteasersView →
- Trace of A-transpose-AMediumLinear AlgebraView →
- Where the slope is steepest downhillMediumCalculusView →
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