Quant interview topics: key results and worked questions

Free guides to the 15 subjects quant trading interviews test: the results to know, and a worked example of every question type.

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Dice & coins

Counting outcomes, complements, binomials. · 5 question types

Cards & combinatorics

Hands, arrangements, birthday problems. · 5 question types

Conditional & Bayes

Updating beliefs from evidence. · 5 question types

Expected value & games

Linearity, optimal stopping, fair prices. · 7 question types

Random walks & martingales

Gambler's ruin, optional stopping. · 4 question types

Markov chains & order statistics

Hitting times, stationary states, branching, order statistics. · 5 question types

Options

Parity, quick pricing, deltas. · 6 question types

Classic brainteasers

Monty Hall, coin patterns, symmetry. · 7 question types

Number sequences

Next-term puzzles, as in Optiver and Maven screens. · 8 question types

Distributions

Normal, Poisson, exponential, binomial. · 5 question types

Variance & covariance

The algebra behind risk. · 4 question types

Estimation & testing

z-tests, CIs, p-values, sample size. · 6 question types

Regression & correlation

OLS, beta, R². · 5 question types

Returns, risk & sizing

Sharpe, vol, VaR, Kelly. · 7 question types

Time series

AR(1), mean reversion, random walks. · 5 question types