Da Vinci Derivatives Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (79%)

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3.3
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Interview Difficulty (96%)

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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.

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Interviews at Da Vinci Derivatives

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Interview Questions & Answers - Da Vinci Derivatives Examples

Graduate Quant Analyst Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in Amsterdam
Interviewed: December 2022
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Step 1: A 10 min mental math test consisting of 60 questions (found this to be tougher than Optiver/ Flow's test)
Step 2: A 150 min hackerrank programming assesment wherein you had to implement a simple trading strategy
Step 3: Interview with the recruiter consisting of questions on background, motivation and 1 expected value question
Step 4: Technical Interview with a quant consisting of a market making game based on a deck of cards. Questions revolved around expected value of sum of three cards, deviations etc
Interview Questions
The market making game based on the sum of the values of 3 cards

Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Amsterdam
Interviewed: April 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Math test, HR interview, 2 on 1 interview (technical, options theory, statistics/probability questions)
Interview Questions
Probability questions. A series of them which are linked.

Junior trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Amsterdam
Interviewed: April 2020
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
First, you have to take an online math test that is quite tough. Practice math problems beforehand. Than you have an interview with HR about motivational fit. After that, there is an interview with a Senior Trader with some puzzles and a market making game.
Interview Questions
what are the companies you applied and what is the status

Graduate Trader Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Amsterdam
Interviewed: March 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Other
Interview
1) Around 50 tough questions in 10 minutes. Its much tougher than what you might get at Optiver screening. Thus need not complete all. No calculator allowed but you may find your ways. But have to have speedy calculations. I did around 35 with around 95% perfection. So around 33 got me interview.
2) HR Screening: To just talk about your motivation and see if your mental math is really what you claim and not just calculator usage. Question like: 8/17 till 4th precision. Follow up question tell me now 5th decimal along with previous 4. That means memory + precision. Now asked my confidence on answer if I was willing to gamble my interview result on that?. I was almost sure so I bet 99.5% percent and yes for interview. Indeed I was right. Rest was general Family background or even getting to know how you are as a person. Be frank and if coming from humble background speak it up. No worries. They love it.
3) 1 on 1 with head of quant(TJ): Multiple estimations, market making questions. Asked about open position and PnL. I talked about my love and mastery over Chess. Next MM question was Total number of moves played from both sides in last GM championship Vishy Anand vs Magnus. 11 games in total so made markets. He provided newer info 2 times about game 1 and 2 moves and checked my market. Question 2: 4 Cards(2 Red + 2 Black). Bet money on four outcomes of card picking at random one by one. Different scenarios: Bet on 1 = Red. Opposite info for 1 given(Black). Now bet on 2 = Red. I went on Variance minimizing strategy which is I think perfect. But my mistake was when I was provided 4:1 Margin I changed it to Mean maximizing strategy under pressure and improper calculations.
So I believe MM and betting errors were problem for me for not getting to next round.

But their procedure is well defined and good.
Interview Questions
1) Mental Math(was known)
2) Market Making(was known)
3) Betting when having different confidence interval were provided(was difficult at first if haven't thought beforehand)

Quant Analyst Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Amsterdam
Interviewed: March 2021
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Other
Interview
There programming test consist of evaluating a trading strategy. Didn't passed. No feedback and no idea what they are looking for.
Interview Questions
Programming test with out test example. No idea of there passline.

Trader Interview - Prop Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in Amsterdam
Interviewed: August 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
IQ / Intelligence Test
Interview
Got link to the test from C executive of the company. 2 different tests which were told as calculus, algebra and probability but ended up mostly as quizzes and puzzles type questions. 10 questions each with 20 and 45 minutes time respectively. Poor test portal. The executive sent wrong id/password and then issued a new one. Familiar questions with full confidence of 80%+ score, but told that I was way off the required score.
Interview Questions
Didn't reached interview. In test, the questions were like find unique values of A to E for given equations. Then there were questions like if 500 bulbs are initially switched off and then every 2nd switch is flipped, then every third switch is flipped till 500, find number of bulbs still switched on. There were questions on probability. HR never contacted through the process and the HR's personal LinkedIn account was also handled by the C executive which is fishy. The executive was very responsive.