Akuna Capital LLC Interview Questions

209 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (86%)

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The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire dataset.

3.5
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Interview Difficulty (100%)

The Interview Difficulty is a score ranging from very difficult (red) to very easy (green) generated based on the Interview Insights at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. The higher the number, the more difficult the interviews on average. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few interview insights). Simply put, as a company gets more insights, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to its simple average and away from the average of the entire data set.

3.6
  • Very Easy
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% Interns - FT Offers (81%)

The % of Interns Getting a Full Time Offer chart is meant to provide a realistic estimate of the hiring practices of the company based on the reviews at this company.

The number you see in the middle of the doughnut pie chart is the simple average of these scores. If you hover over the various sections of the doughnut, you will see the % breakdown of each score given.

The percentile score in the title is calculated across the entire Company Database and uses an adjusted score based on Bayesian Estimates (to account for companies that have few reviews). Simply put, as a company gets more reviews, the confidence of a "true score" increases so it is pulled closer to the simple company average and away from the average of the entire data set.

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Interviews at Akuna Capital LLC

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Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2022
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Sydney
Experience
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Difficulty
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Intern
Year 2023
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Software
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
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Difficult
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2023
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Financial Institutions Group (FIG)
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
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Difficult
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2022
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
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Difficult
Junior Trader
Year 2023
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
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Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
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Location Chicago
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Difficult
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2023
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division N/A
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
1st Year Analyst
Year 2019
Job Title 1st Year Analyst
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location Chicago
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Difficulty
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Quant
Year 2022
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
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Difficulty
Average

Interview Questions & Answers - Akuna Capital LLC Examples

Intern Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Sydney
Interviewed: May 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Firstly, they will give you an online assessment. I know people with fairly low weighted mark averages that got the OA so I don't believe that screen for it. Their OA has a small programming section which is uncommon for trading roles at other firms. There are 2 rounds of interviews. First round is short and only 3 question, 2nd round is longer and many more questions (didn't get to second round so can't give specifics).
Interview Questions
You are given $10mil today and you can spend it as you wish and in 3 years time you will return to me all the money. If you made a profit, I will pay you back the profit. If you made a loss, I will accept the loss. How would you spend the money in 3 years? 3 days?
100 ants on a 1m stick moving at 1cm/s, when 2 ants meet head on they turn around.How long (max time) until the stick is clear?

Software Engineer Intern Interview - Software

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: October 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
2 online assessments with decently difficult questions. Followed by phone interview with questions about software engineering fundamentals. Questions like what is lazy evaluation, etc. Then, final round interview consisting of two parts. First was coding question, decently difficult. Second part was system design. They press you about your decisions so make sure to have solid justification.
Interview Questions
What is lazy evaluation?

Junior Quantitative Researcher Interview - Financial Institutions Group (FIG)

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: August 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Skills Test
Interview
HireRank coding assessment, 3 questions and one hour to solve them. They were not difficult, but you can't use any library, which was quite chalenging.
Interview Questions
A question about some kind of trading strategy, and you had to compute the output after a day of work. Really tricky.

Junior Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: October 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Personality Test
Background Check
Interview
Round 1: OA with arithmetic and sequences. Only attempted around 80% with an accuracy of 95%, still passed to the second round

Round 2: Online Personality Quiz. Around ~150 questions about your personality where you have to choose from Strongly disagree to strongly agree. Not sure what they're looking for here but I've heard that they tend to go for INTJ types.

Round 3: Phone Interview with a Junior Trader. Standard probability and expectation questions and some brainteasers from the green book (A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews by Xinfeng Zhou). Also tested my arithmetic again. Asked about 6 questions and how confident I was in my answer on each. At the end, I was told to state the first arithmetic question asked.

Round 4: Final Interview where they elaborated some gambling dice games similar to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_I1MjckaU, and at the end was a brief market-making game where I had to make a market on the temperature of Chicago
Interview Questions
Make a Market on the number of cars in Chicago

Junior Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: January 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
OA consisted of sequences and quick mental math questions, decently low cutoff. 2nd round was a recorded multiple choice test in the form of a game. Then came the trader round which was primarily probability questions (little time to answer). Final round was mix of behavioral and technical.
Interview Questions
Question about the value of a non financial option and solved under a minute.

Quant Trading Intern Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Sydney
Interviewed: March 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Step 1
After reviewing your application, Akuna sends you two online tests to complete – the first is a 22-minute mental math test and the second is an online coding challenge that can be taken in either Python or C++.
Step 2
If you advance to the next round, you will be invited to complete a very short recorded video interview.
Step 3
Following the video interview you will have two technical phone interviews with members from Akuna's Quant Trading & Research team.
Step 4
Final round interviews are conducted in person or via video conference and last anywhere from 1 to 4 hours.
Interview Questions
Mental math test

Junior Trader Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: March 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Skills Test
Other
Interview
First round: Math test that lasted about 25 minutes (arithmetic + sequence questions).
Second round: EV game, again tests your math and speed.
Did not pass second round.
Interview Questions
Many sequence questions on the math test required creativity, like using prime numbers, for example. You can prepare all you can with rules but many of them require creativity.

Jr Trader Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: March 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Skills Test
Interview
1st round: math test (arithmetic and sequence)
2nd round: EV test (speed and accuracy)
both test your ability to do mental math quickly
Interview Questions
Many sequence questions on the math test required some level of creativity, other than the ones that can be tackled with common rules for sequence problems.

Quant Researcher Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: May 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Skills Test
Interview
I applied online and got an online assessment the following day. It consisted of mental arithmetic and simple probability problems (probability of getting 1 or 2 in a dice roll). There is no camera or anything like that, so it's easy to cheat. Therefore I don't see the point of the test, but that's just my opinion.
The next step was a self-recorded video interview. Two behavioral questions (describe a failure and why trading) and two harder probability questions (one use of bayes theorem and another use of of the binomial distribution).
Finally had a phone call with HR. It went ok, but they decided to not continue with the process because my graduation date (from a PhD program) didn't match their dates.
Interview Questions
Bayes theorem problem to be solved mentally. So in addition to the problem statement and correct use of formula, mental calculation was tough.

Junior Quantitative Researcher Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: October 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Fast-tracked me to the phone interview, asked about a straightforward probability question but I somehow failed the interview
Interview Questions
One rod was broken into two pieces, and then the longer one again was broken into two pieces. What is the probability that the resulting 3 pieces form a triangle