Akuna Capital LLC Interview Questions
The Interview Experience is a score from 1 star (very negative) to 5 stars (very positive) 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. If you hover over the various sections of the donut, 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 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.
- Very Negative
- Negative
- Neutral
- Positive
- Very Positive
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.
- Very Easy
- Easy
- Average
- Difficult
- Very Difficult
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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Interview Questions & Answers - Akuna Capital LLC Examples
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Junior Trader Interview - Prop Trading
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
Junior Trader Interview - Prop Trading
Quant Trading Intern Interview
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.
Junior Trader Interview
Second round: EV game, again tests your math and speed.
Did not pass second round.
Jr Trader Interview
2nd round: EV test (speed and accuracy)
both test your ability to do mental math quickly
Quant Researcher Interview - Quantitative Research
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.
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