Worldquant Interview Questions

10 total interview insight submissions
Interview Experience (79%)

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.

3.6
  • Very Negative
  • Negative
  • Neutral
  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (96%)

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
% Interns - FT Offers (42%)

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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Interviews at Worldquant

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Year 2022
Job Title Intern
Group/Division N/A
Location London
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Average
Intern
Year 2022
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location Beijing
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Average
Engineer
Year 2022
Job Title Engineer
Group/Division Trading
Location London
Experience
Negative
Difficulty
Easy
Consultant
Year 2022
Job Title Consultant
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location Haidian Qu
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Easy
Intern
Year 2022
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
Quant
Year 2022
Job Title Quant
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location
Experience
Very Positive
Difficulty
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Year 2019
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Quantitative Research
Location Taipei
Experience
Positive
Difficulty
Difficult
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Year 2018
Job Title Student / Prospective Monkey
Group/Division Natural Resources
Location Kolkata
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Quant
Year 2014
Job Title Quant
Group/Division N/A
Location Mumbai
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult
Intern
Year 2015
Job Title Intern
Group/Division Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)
Location New York
Experience
Neutral
Difficulty
Difficult

Interview Questions & Answers - Worldquant Examples

quant researcher Interview

Anonymous employee in London
Interviewed: May 2022
Date Submitted: Oct 18, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
IQ / Intelligence Test
Other
Interview
- Round 1 : HR Call (with 3rd party agency)
- Round 2: Online Coding test
- Round 3: 24 hour take home assignment
- Round 4,5,6: Technical interviews with team
Overall comprehensive, challenging, but practically focused interviews
Interview Questions
Bad cop style interviewer, who would attack reasonable answers
What are the gates in an LSTM network
Questions on various ML techniques but in an unusual level of detail. Talking through dropout, bias-variance, and so on but in more depth than simple textbook definitions
Sample Answer

Researcher Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous employee in Beijing
Interviewed: May 2022
Date Submitted: Jun 05, 2023
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
submit the CV. The first round interview meets two directors one by one lasting for 1.5h. The second round is similar.
Interview Questions
why economic theory typically assumes people are risk-averse?
Sample Answer

Software Engineer Interview - Trading

Anonymous interview candidate in London
Interviewed: August 2022
Date Submitted: Apr 17, 2023
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Recruiter
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Interview
I had a phone interview with the hiring manager for the team. They asked typical computer science questions. I received a rejection after that itself without any additional feedback.
Interview Questions
They asked if I’ve used any open source message queue systems.
Sample Answer

consultant Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous employee in Haidian Qu
Interviewed: October 2022
Date Submitted: Nov 29, 2022
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Other
Interview
finding alphas on their online platform.As long as you can get more than 10000, it is very likely to offer you a part time consultant job.
Interview Questions
difficulty part is to find alphas with low correlation
Sample Answer

Quantitative Research Intern Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous employee in
Interviewed: February 2022
Date Submitted: Oct 24, 2022
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Background Check
Interview
Online assessment followed by technical interviews including probability, linear algebra, algorithms questions
Interview Questions
Estimation of correlation
Sample Answer

Quantitative Researcher Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in
Interviewed: March 2022
Date Submitted: Apr 18, 2022
Outcome
Declined Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
Less than 1 month
Application
Phone Interview
1 on 1 Interview
Skills Test
Interview
Extremely fast interview process.
1 day after an interview, you immediately know whether you proceed to the next round.
The interviewers I encountered were also all very friendly.
It was a positive experience overall.
Interview Questions
I think I struggle most with soft aspects of the interview, like why quant?
Sample Answer

Quantitative Research Intern Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Taipei
Interviewed: May 2019
Date Submitted: Sep 28, 2019
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
I was emailed by HR to set up phone interviews. Each interview was around 4 minutes long and there were 2 interviews back to back each session. I had 3 total sessions.
Interview Questions
The first interview was the hardest. The question was first posed as determining when all 100 isolated people had entered some room. Every time they enter the room, they can turn the light on or off. You know the starting orientation. Then, a variatiation of the question was given where you do not know the starting orientation. I also was given a bunch of dice rolling, expected value questions about how to play various games. During the interview, if you were stuck, they would help you through the problems.
Sample Answer

banking Interview - Natural Resources

Anonymous interview candidate in Kolkata
Interviewed: April 2018
Date Submitted: Oct 04, 2018
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Interview
The first round was difficult, then the HR round was quite usual. The final round was really really difficult.
Interview Questions
1.Why do you want to be a banker?

2.What attracts you to a career in banking?

3. What kind of lifestyle do you expect to have in banking?

4. Why have you chosen banking over consulting?

5. Do you know what you're letting yourself in for?

6. What would you be doing if you weren't in finance?

7. Do you know about the investment banking lifestyle? Why don't you have a problem with it?

8.I can see you're entrepreneurial, but you want to work in banking. Why is that?

That is pretty much. There was some other questions too.
Sample Answer

Quantitative Researcher Interview

Anonymous employee in Mumbai
Interviewed: December 2014
Date Submitted: Oct 26, 2017
Outcome
Accepted Offer
Interview Source
Applied Online
Length of Process
2-3 months
Application
Phone Interview
Interview
It was a tough process. There were a series of interviews and I think there were 11 of them in all. Each one of them was technical and they mostly centered on probability based questions.
Interview Questions
What is the probability of getting sum < K , where K is the sum of 3 coin tosses {head = 1 and tail = 0 } attempts ?

Consider that there is a deck of cards where on one face there is the serial value of the card and on the other side is its actual face value like , and so on. Now you plot these points on the x,y plane. What is the expected number of minimas you will find in a sample of n?

Coding question : Given an array of integers , build an another array of the same size where for each index, the value is the product of all the numbers in the original array except that number in the index. Understand division is not allowed for this problem.
Sample Answer

developer Interview - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)

Anonymous interview candidate in New York
Interviewed: 2015
Date Submitted: Jan 19, 2016
Outcome
No Offer
Interview Source
College / University / On Campus Recruiting
Length of Process
1-2 months
Application
Skills Test
Interview
The company reached out to me through the Student resume book. Online test including programming and math.
Interview Questions
Brain teaser questions like When flipped, a biased coin has a probability of 0.9 for heads. If you get $1 for heads and lose $10 for tails, what is your expected wealth after 10 tosses? and There are three containers of pens. One container has red pens, one has blue pens, and one contains both red and blue pens. Each container is labeled. One is labeled "red", one "blue", and one "red and blue". However, none of the containers' labels match the contents, and you want to fix this. If you are only allowed to sample just one pen from just one of the containers, what would you do so you can fix the labels on the containers?
Sample Answer