Quantitative Analyst

Status
1st Year Analyst at
Group/Division/Type
Quantitative Research
City
New York
Interviewed
November 2014
Overall experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
The interview process consisted of 3 phone rounds with different members of the group. Each person asked a probability question, a programming question and a finance question. The probability questions: estimate the number of flips to get two heads in a row, find variance for a binomial distribution etc. Programming questions consisted of writing pseudocode for simulating a random walk as well as computing the length of a binomial tree. Finance questions were regarding pricing of options and the put/call parity as well as the definition of futures.
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