Quant

Status
Quant at
Group/Division/Type
Quantitative Research
City
London
Interviewed
November 2021
Overall experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average

General Interview Information

Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
4-5 months

Interview Details

What did the interview consist of?
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Please describe the interview / hiring process.
The company is GSA capital, not sure WSO won't recognise it.
Found email on the website and wrote cold . Got a response from a recruiter pretty quickly.
First round was 1 week take-home: machine learning exercise to predict return based on a couple of features.
Difficult and noisy problem, I guess they are looking for something creative here rather than standard techniques.
Then several interviews. The approach is non-stantard, every interviewer asks what he wants.
There was some discussion in regard of expected values/variances, a simple coding problem, some brainteasers.
Mostly though it was an open-ended discussion around a trading problem.
Then got a call with a portfolio manager. Again an open-ended discussion.
Waited for a couple of months for a decision, was not selected.

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