QVT Financial LP Interview Questions

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Interview Experience (66%)

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3.7
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  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (86%)

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.

3.3
  • Very Easy
  • Easy
  • Average
  • Difficult
  • Very Difficult

Interviews at QVT Financial LP

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Year 2011
Job Title Other
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Location New York
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Operations Analyst
Year 2010
Job Title Operations Analyst
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Interview Questions & Answers - QVT Financial LP Examples

Quant Interview

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: November 2011
Date Submitted: Jan 17, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
Spoke with them at a college career fair. On-campus interview a few days later. Then an on-site at their office.
Interview Questions
Several questions related to classes I took. One of the interviewers had my transcript and would seem to just go through and look for classes with names that sounded like topics he could ask about. It was hard since some of the questions were obscure and it had been a year or two since I'd taken some of the classes. Also one question was the number of ways to climb a flight of n stairs when you can take one or two steps at a time. Another was to explain what the Golden Ratio is, then derive it's value.
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operations analyst Interview -

Anonymous employee in new delhi
Interviewed: December 2010
Date Submitted: Mar 14, 2013
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Staffing Agency
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
IQ / Intelligence Test
Background Check
Interview
first round involved a general 30 minute casual chat involving a talk around the company work; plans for remote location work and career aspiration oppurtuities. on my part i was asked on career aspirations, college projects and general HR questions to gauge culture fit.

second and final round of itnerview consisted of a round with COO and involved technical questions on accounts, logical reasoning puzzles and further grilling on my career aspirations. it lasted half n hour again with other queries involving around college projects and discussion on then current financial news.
Interview Questions
asked to explain why the oil's price is currently high and implications of middle eastern politics on price! ( retrospectively i can vouch for it it was a silly question to ask for a ops interview!!)

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Investment Analyst Intern (Spring) Interview -

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: December 2012
Date Submitted: Feb 04, 2013
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
Received email from HR for interview with portfolio manager. 30-minute phone interview, covered basics of close-ended funds and a brainteaser. Very nice guy, but I was questioned pretty intensely on a part of my transcript and I didn't have a suitable answer. After that, interview went downhill. Pitched a stock, got asked pretty in-depth questions about my resume.

Overall, pretty normal phone interview - I was underprepared.
Interview Questions
100 coins, 100 people. All coins are heads up initially. First person flips first one, second person flips every other one (starting with #2), third person flips every third one (starting with #3), etc. When all people go, which coins are tails up and which are still heads up?

- Answer is that perfect squares are tails up because of their factors (1 is flipped once, 4 is flipped 3 times, but 6 is flipped 4 times (1, 2, 3, 6)) - essentially, it's perfect squares because their square root is only 'counted' once, and results in an odd number of flips. I don't know if I missed any cases but the guy seemed to accept it. Note that simplifying the case by first just doing the first 10 makes it infinitely easier to see the pattern.
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