Worldquant Interview Questions

7 total interview insight submissions

Interview Experience (83%)

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.

3.9
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  • Positive
  • Very Positive
Interview Difficulty (97%)

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.

3.6
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% Interns - FT Offers (2%)

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

YearPositionLocationGroup/DivisionExperienceDifficulty
2022consultantHaidian QuQuantitative ResearchPositiveEasy
2022Quantitative Research InternQuantitative ResearchVery PositiveDifficult
2022Quantitative ResearcherQuantitative ResearchVery PositiveAverage
2019Quantitative Research InternTaipeiQuantitative ResearchPositiveDifficult
2018bankingKolkataNatural ResourcesNeutralDifficult
2014Quantitative ResearcherMumbaiN/ANeutralDifficult
2015developerNew YorkTechnology, Media and Telecom (TMT)NeutralDifficult

consultant Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous employee in Haidian Qu

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: October 2022

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

Quantitative Research Intern Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous employee in

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: February 2022

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

Quantitative Researcher Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in

Outcome

Declined Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

Less than 1 month
Interviewed: March 2022

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?

Quantitative Research Intern Interview - Quantitative Research

Anonymous interview candidate in Taipei

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: May 2019

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.

banking Interview - Natural Resources

Anonymous interview candidate in Kolkata

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: April 2018

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.

Quantitative Researcher Interview

Anonymous employee in Mumbai

Outcome

Accepted Offer

Interview Source

Applied Online

Length of Process

2-3 months
Interviewed: December 2014

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 <0,13> ,<1,18> 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.

developer Interview - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT)

Anonymous interview candidate in New York

Outcome

No Offer

Interview Source

College / University / On Campus Recruiting

Length of Process

1-2 months
Interviewed: 2015

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?