Akuna Capital LLC Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (83%)

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Interview Difficulty (100%)

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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
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% Interns - FT Offers (80%)

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 2026
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division N/A
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2026
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Sales and Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Junior Trader
Year 2026
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Quantitative Trading
Location Sydney
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Junior Trader
Year 2025
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Sales and Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2025
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
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Difficult
Quant
Year 2024
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Hedge Fund
Location chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
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Quant
Year 2025
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Quant
Year 2025
Job Title Quant
Group/Division N/A
Location Chicago
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Student / Prospective Monkey
Year 2025
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Prop Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Junior Trader
Year 2025
Job Title Junior Trader
Group/Division Sales and Trading
Location Chicago
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Akuna Capital LLC Examples

Junior Trader Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: February 2026
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Did multiple online assessment first mental math. Probably impossible to do all in the short time and you lose a lot of time clicking but basically standard mental math and sequences. second online assessment was probability. the format was a little tricky, instead of typing in probabilities it was more like: "if you win you get 1$. how much money would be a fair bet." or something like that. but the probabilies were very easy. again lost a lot of time clicking. was invited to third oa but then got email they already filled position i was too slow. but then got invite to options 201 i had also applied to. had to do 3rd online assessment which was just an easy market making game with camera on and a behavioral question at the end.
Interview Questions
Describe a technical challenge you have faced and solved so that anybody who is not familiar can understand but also so an expert in the field can get something out of it.

Junior Trader Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: April 2026
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Top performers of the Akuna 201 course get expedited to the final rounds. The course lasts 5 days and there is a quiz each day. Had to do an HR zoom interview before the final round. HR interview consisted of very basic questions such as "why akuna"/ "why trading".
Interview Questions
Mental math (2x2 operations), series, and probability.

Junior Quant Trader Interview - Quantitative Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Sydney
Interviewed: March 2026
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Employee Referral
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Other
Interview
Had to take their Options 201 course which took about 5 hours over 3 days. They mentioned top performers would be expedited to the final round but I had to do a zoom interview in between. Final round was behavioural and technical questions with one trader and one quant.
Interview Questions
Surprise memory tests during the Options 201 quizzes e.g. "Which of these was not an answer given in the previous question."

Junior trader Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: November 2025
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Applied online, received math test 80 questions, the math test was based on arithmetic questions mental math.
This was followed by a probability test, involved calculating expected value questions of events
Interview Questions
Doing mental math without paper pen and no calculators allowed

Quantitative Research Intern Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: October 2025
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Online assessment followed by video interview. OA was straightforward python leetcode-style questions, however the video interview was nontraditional requiring you to verbally work through ~7 recorded math questions.
Interview Questions
Convergence time of newton's method

quant researcher intern Interview - Hedge Fund

Anonymous interview candidate in chicago
Interviewed: November 2024
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
The entire hiring process took approximately 6-7 weeks. It began with a technical phone screen conducted by a Senior QR, focusing on quick probability puzzles, mental math, and some data structure questions. After passing, I was scheduled for the final round, which consisted of three intensive 1-on-1 interviews. These interviews covered a wide range of topics: a deep dive into advanced math and statistics (linear algebra, probability); a whiteboard coding session focused on algorithms and python; and a final behavioral interview with a senior manager discussing my motivation, my understanding of quant trading, and "why Akuna." Overall, the process was very fast-paced and technically challenging, clearly designed to test problem-solving speed and strong fundamentals.
Interview Questions
Talk about an experience when you help your teammate work out a difficult problem

Quantitative Trader Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: August 2025
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
2 rounds of online assessments, the first being quick mental math problems, second being probability questions. Invited to "phone" round afterward, which was a zoom interview with a trader where I was asked "Why Akuna/trading" and then 5 or 6 probability/game style questions.
Interview Questions
Make me a market for the Chicago metro area. How much would you risk to win $100 if the real answer is in your market?
We are playing a game where we roll two dice. You win if you roll a 10, how much would you risk to win $100?

Quant Developer Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: September 2025
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
After applying, I quickly got a Hackerrank OA with 3 roughly Leetcode Medium level problems. My solutions passed all the provided test cases and a few days later I got another OA: 15 minutes - 3 quant probability-type questions, 5 minutes each, where I had to explain my thought process for each question. About a month later I got invited to do a live coding interview over Zoom. The actual question asked was easy but then the interviewer added variations to the question, was able to answer everything except a question about a very esoteric data structure I hadn't heard about, which is what seems to have gotten me dinged. If I had passed that interview, the final step in the process would have been a superday.
Interview Questions
How to determine the max value in a sliding window (didn't know what a monotonic queue was)

Junior Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Chicago
Interviewed: July 2025
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Interview
I applied on linkedin, they then sent me a math assessment the week after that. It was timed mental math problems where you oculd not use a calulator. The test was around 70 questions and soon got harder as the questions went on. The second part of the exam was sceniors to see if you make quick decisions.
Interview Questions
The mental math problems which were timed, one example was the 56*56

Junior trader Interview - Sales and Trading

Anonymous employee in Chicago
Interviewed: March 2025
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Starts with a couple rounds of online assessments before moving to zoom calls with traders and a behavioral round with an hr rep
Interview Questions
I don’t remember the exact question, but it was along the lines of two separate games that have the same expected value which one would you choose?
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